Lexical Summary Kimah: a cluster of stars Original Word: כִּימָהTransliteration: Kimah Phonetic Spelling: (kee-maw') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: a cluster of stars Meaning: a cluster of stars, the Pleiades Strong's Concordance Pleiades, seven stars From the same as kuwmaz; a cluster of stars, i.e. The Pleiades -- Pleiades, seven stars. see HEBREW kuwmaz Brown-Driver-Briggs H3598. Kimah כִּימָה noun feminine perhaps Pleiades (see above; Late Hebrew id.; ᵑ6 כִּימָא, ᵑ7 ) — as made by ׳י, Amos 5:8 ("" כְּסִיל), Job 9:9 ("" תֵמָן חַדְרֵי כְּסִיל, עָשׁ,); and under his control, כ ׳מַעֲדַנּוֺת 38:31 ("" כְּסִיל משְׁכוֺת). — (SternJüd. Zeitschr. f. Wissen. u. Leben. iii.((1864-65) 258 ff. Nö in SchenkelBL HoffmZAW iii. 107 ff. interpret עשׁ as Pleiades, and כימה as Sirius). |
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