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Saturday, December 21st, 2024
the Third Week of Advent
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Bible Lexicons
Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #3598 - כִּימָה
Transliteration
Kîymâh
Phonetics
kee-maw'
Origin
from the same as (H3558)
Parts of Speech
collective feminine noun
TWOT
None
Definition
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition
- Pleiades, a constellation of seven stars
Frequency Lists
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- Word
Verse Results
ASV (3)
Job
2
Amos
1
BSB (3)
Job
2
Amos
1
CSB (3)
Job
2
Amos
1
ESV (3)
Job
2
Amos
1
KJV (3)
Job
2
Amos
1
LEB (3)
Job
2
Amos
1
LSB (3)
Job
2
Amos
1
N95 (3)
Job
2
Amos
1
NAS (3)
Job
2
Amos
1
NLT (0)
The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number
did not use
this Strong's Number
WEB (3)
Job
2
Amos
1
Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition
כִּימָה noun feminine perhaps Pleiades (see above; Late Hebrew id.; ᵑ7כִּימָא, ᵑ6 
) — as made by ׳י, Amos 5:8 ("" כְּסִיל), Job 9:9 ("" עָשׁ, כְּסִיל, חַדְרֵי תֵמָן); and under his control, ׳מַעֲדַנּוֺת כ Job 38:31 ("" משְׁכוֺת כְּסִיל). — (Stern Jüd. Zeitschr. f. Wissen. u. Leben. iii.((1864-65) 258 ff. Nö in Schenkel BL Hoffm ZAW iii. 107 ff. interpret עשׁ as Pleiades, and כימה as Sirius).
) — as made by ׳י, Amos 5:8 ("" כְּסִיל), Job 9:9 ("" עָשׁ, כְּסִיל, חַדְרֵי תֵמָן); and under his control, ׳מַעֲדַנּוֺת כ Job 38:31 ("" משְׁכוֺת כְּסִיל). — (Stern Jüd. Zeitschr. f. Wissen. u. Leben. iii.((1864-65) 258 ff. Nö in Schenkel BL Hoffm ZAW iii. 107 ff. interpret עשׁ as Pleiades, and כימה as Sirius).
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Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition
כִּימָה f. pr. a heap, cluster (from the root כּוּם which see); specially of stars, hence the Pleiades, or the seven stars, consisting of seven larger stars, and other lesser ones closely grouped; Arab. ثُرَيَّا (plenty, multitude), more fully عقد الثريا the bundle of the Pleiades; Syr. and Hebr. ܟܚܺܡܳܐ. Amos 5:8; Job 9:9, 38:31, in which last passage, by a like image הַחְקַשֵּׁר מַעֲדַנּוֹת כִּימָה “hast thou fastened together the bands of the Pleiades?” More allusions are given by Th. Hyde on Ulugh-Beigh’s Tabb. page 32, Niebuhr’s Arabia, p. 114, Ideler, üb. Ursprung und Bedeutung der Sternnamen, p. 146.
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List of Word Forms
וְכִימָ֗ה וכימה כִּימָ֑ה כִימָ֜ה כימה chiMah kî·māh ḵî·māh kiMah kîmāh ḵîmāh vechiMah wə·ḵî·māh wəḵîmāh
