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661 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Heaven.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
(a) The firmament, as “fowls of the heaven” ( Genesis 2:19; Genesis 7:3, Genesis 7:23; Psalm 8:8, etc.), “the eagles of heaven” ( Lamentations 4:19 ), etc.
662 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Heaven.10 (Matthew G. Easton)
(d) Heb. shahak, rendered “sky” ( Deuteronomy 33:26; Job 37:18; Psalm 18:11 ), plural “clouds” ( Job 35:5; Job 36:28; Psalm 68:34, marg. “heavens”), means probably the firmament.
663 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Heaven.11 (Matthew G. Easton)
(e) Heb. rakia is closely connected with (d), and is rendered “firmamentum” in the Vulgate, whence our “firmament” ( Genesis 1:6; Deuteronomy 33:26, etc.), regarded as a solid expanse.
664 Etymology dictionary, p. cosmos (n.).3
… starry firmament," but it later was extended to the whole physical world, including the earth. For specific reference to "the world of people," the classical …
665 Etymology dictionary, p. *dher-.3
It forms all or part of: affirm; confirm; Darius; dharma; farm; fermata; firm (adj.); firm (n.); firmament; furl; infirm; infirmary; terra firma; throne .
666 Etymology dictionary, p. ether (n.).2
… ; sky, firmament," from Greek aithēr "upper air; bright, purer air; the sky" (opposed to aēr "the lower air"), from aithein "to burn, shine," from PIE *aidh- "to burn" (see edifice …
667 Etymology dictionary, p. fastness (n.).2
"a place not easily forced, a stronghold," late Old English fæstnes "firmness, strongness, massiveness, stability; the firmament," from fast (adj.) in its older sense of "firm, fixed in place" + -ness .
668 Etymology dictionary, p. firmament (n.).1
firmament (n.)
669 Etymology dictionary, p. firmament (n.).2
… French firmament or directly from Latin firmamentum "firmament," literally "a support, a strengthening," from firmus "strong, steadfast, enduring" (from suffixed …
670 Etymology dictionary, p. firmament (n.).4
In Ptolemaic astronomy, "the sphere of the fixed stars" (c. 1300). Related: Firmamental .
671 Etymology dictionary, p. heaven (n.).2
… sky, firmament," probably from Proto-Germanic *hibin-, a dissimilation of *himin- (source also of Low German heben, Old Norse himinn, Gothic himins, Old Frisian himul …
672 Etymology dictionary, p. lift (n.).3
The word once had a twin, Middle English lift "the air, the atmosphere; the sky, the firmament," from Old English lyft "air" (see loft (n.)).
673 Etymology dictionary, p. sky (n.).3
… , the firmament" is attested from c. 1300; it replaced native heofon in this sense (see heaven ). In Middle English, the word can still mean both "cloud" and "heaven," as …
674 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Adam in the Old Testament and the Apocrypha.4
… darkness; firmament and waters; land and seas; plants; sun, moon, stars; swimming and flying creatures; land animals. No possible parallel to this classification …
675 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Adoration.14
… the firmament sheweth his handiwork." (Compare especially the "nature Psalms" Psalms 8:1 - 9; Psalms 19:1 - 14; Psalms 29:1 - 11; Psalms 104:1 - 35 .)
676 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Air.2
… dome (firmament) stretching over the earth as a covering. In the above phrase the air means the space between the earth and the firmament. In Job (41:16) "air" renders …
677 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Apocalyptic Literature, 1.28
… the firmament and then through heaven after heaven to the seventh. A great angel leads him upward. In the firmament he found the angels of the devil envying …
678 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Assyria.37
… upper firmament, which in the neo-Babylonian age was pronounced Assor. The combination of the attributes of the warrior-god, who was the peculiar god of the …
679 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astronomy, I.61
3. The Firmament
680 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astronomy, III.2
… --"the firmament"--above which were stored, as if in cisterns, the "treasuries" ( Job 38:22 ) of the rain, snow and hail, and some writers have even attempted to express …