Constellation
כְּסִילStrong’s H3685kesil (ke-sil)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kesil is the Hebrew word usually translated “orion” and “constellations their”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.”
Meaning
- Constellation of Orion
- Constellation (in general)
How it's translated
- orion 2
- and constellations their 1
- and orion 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Isaiah 1
- Amos 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Job 38:31Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
- Isaiah 13:10For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
- 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
כְּסִיל kesil · Orion
Constellation of Orion
כְּסִיל kesil · constellation
constellation (in general)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “constellation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CONSTELLATION, noun
- A cluster of fixed stars; an asterism; a number of stars which appear as if situated near each other in the heavens, and are considered as forming a particular division.“For the stars of heaven, and the constellations thereof, shall not give their light” Isaiah 13:10
- An assemblage of splendors or excellencies.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.