a cluster of stars, stands in the Auth. Vers. only in Isa 13:10 (the stars of heaven and constellations thereof shall not give their light), for the Heb. , kesil’ (in the plur.), i.e. the fat or clear (Sept. , Vulg. splendor), as a designation apparently of the large starry bodies generally. The same (Heb.) word elsewhere designates some special assemblage of stars (Orion, Job 9:9; Job 38:31; Amo 5:8); and once the name of a town (Chesil, Jos 15:30). (See Schnaar, Ueb. d. Sternbilder. etc. Rink. 1791.) SEE ASTRONOMY. <\/p>\n
a cluster of stars, or stars which appear to be near each other in the heavens, and which astronomers have reduced to certain figures (as the “Great Bear,” the “Bull,” etc.) for the sake of classification and of memory. In Isa. 13:10<\/span>, where this word only occurs, it is the rendering of the Hebrew _kesil_, i.e., “fool.” This was the Hebrew name of the constellation Orion (Job 9:9<\/span>; 38:31<\/span>), a constellation which represented Nimrod, the symbol of folly and impiety. The word some interpret by “the giant” in this place, “some heaven-daring rebel who was chained to the sky for his impiety.”<\/p>\n Constellation a cluster of stars, stands in the Auth. Vers. only in Isa 13:10 (the stars of heaven and constellations thereof shall not give their light), for the Heb. , kesil’ (in the plur.), i.e. the fat or clear (Sept. , Vulg. splendor), as a designation apparently of the large starry bodies generally. The same … Continue reading “Constellation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"