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Orion
Heb. Kesil; i.e., “the fool”, the name of a constellation (Job 9:9; Job 38:31; Amos 5:8) consisting of about eighty stars. The Vulgate renders thus, but the LXX. renders by Hesperus, i.e., “the evening-star,” Venus. The Orientals “appear to have conceived of this constellation under the figure of an impious giant bound upon the sky.” This giant was, according to tradition, Nimrod, the type of the folly that contends against God. In Isa 13:10 the plural form of the Hebrew word is rendered “constellations.”
Named in the Bible
3 verses
- Job 9:9 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
- Job 38:31 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
- Amos 5:8 Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
