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Stars
The eleven stars (Gen 37:9); the seven (Amos 5:8); wandering (Jude 1:1:13); seen in the east at the birth of Christ, probably some luminous meteors miraculously formed for this specific purpose (Matt 2:2–10); stars worshipped (Deut 4:19; 2 Kgs 17:16; 2 Kgs 21:3; Jer 19:13); spoken of symbolically (Num 24:17; Rev 1:16, Rev 1:20; Rev 12:1). (See Astrologers.)
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.