Pleiades
כִּימָהStrong’s H3598kimah (ki-mah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kimah is the Hebrew word usually translated “pleiades”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.”
Meaning
- Pleiades, a constellation of seven stars
How it's translated
- pleiades 2
- and pleiades 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Amos 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 38:31Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
- Amos 5:8Seek 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:
Hebrew dictionary
כִּימָה kimah · Pleiades
Pleiades, a constellation of seven stars
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.