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Heaven, referring to the afterlife, is never mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. There is no Biblical Hebrew word for this concept.

However, Early modern English translations used the word "heaven" as a poetic word for sky, and the word sky (שמיים) appears 653 times. Many Christian translations continue to use the word "heaven" in their translations, when the word שמיים in the Hebrew text is either referring literally to the sky, or figuratively, to God.

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