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741 Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, p. זֹחֶ֫לֶת.2
… of planet Saturn’s remoteness ) —only c. art., in design. loc. עִם אֶבֶן הַזֹּחֶלֶת 1 K 1:9 (cf. אֶבֶן ad fin.)
742 Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, p. כּוֹכָב.2
… of planet Venus, v. also We Skizzen iii. 36, 38; Arabic كَوْكَبٌ gen. of single stars and prob. Aramaic loan-word, We Skizzen iii. 173; Ethiopic ኮከብ; prob. for כבכב v. Mahri …
743 Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, p. כִּיּוּן.2
… kaivânu, planet Saturn (Arabic and Pers. كَيْوَانٌ, Syriac ܟܶܐܘܳܢ ), regarded as god; orig. pronunc. כֵּיוָן Schr COT ad loc., cf. Kö ii. 151 (pointing כִּיּוּן intended …
744 Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, p. נָגַהּ.2
… נוֹגְהָא planet Venus ) — Qal Pf. ועל־דרכיך נ׳ אוֹר Jb 22:28; אור נ׳ עליהם Is 9:1; Impf. ולא־יִגַּהּ שְׁבִיב אִשּׁוֹ Jb 18:5. Hiph. Impf. 1. enlighten ויהוה יַגִּיהַּ חָשְׁכִּי …
745 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Chiun.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… the planet Saturn is intended by the name. Astrologers represented this planet as baleful in its influences, and hence the Phoenicians offered to it human …
746 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Merodach.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
Merodach — death; slaughter, the name of a Babylonian god, probably the planet Mars ( Jeremiah 50:2 ), or it may be another name of Bel, the guardian divinity of Babylon. This name frequently occurs as a surname to the kings of Assyria and Babylon.
747 Etymology dictionary, p. aeroplane (n.).3
… " (see planet ).
748 Etymology dictionary, p. alien (n.).2
"foreigner, citizen of a foreign land," early 14c., from alien (adj.) or from noun use of the adjective in French and Latin. In the science fiction sense "being from another planet," from 1953.
749 Etymology dictionary, p. altitude (n.).2
… stars, planets), from Latin altitudinem (nominative altitudo ) "height, altitude," from altus "high" (literally "grown tall," from PIE root *al- (2) "to grow, nourish"). The general …
750 Etymology dictionary, p. Antares.2
bright star in Scorpio, from Greek Antares, contracted from anti Ares "rival of Mars," in reference to its red color, which resembles that of the red planet. See anti- + Ares. In Middle English, Cor Scorpionis (late 14c.).
751 Etymology dictionary, p. antecedence (n.).2
… a planet" (from east to west). Related: Antecedency (1590s).
752 Etymology dictionary, p. apogee (n.).3
… and planets; for these bodies it was displaced in the Copernican system by aphelion. Adjective forms are apogeal, apogean, apogeic .
753 Etymology dictionary, p. apsis (n.).2
"perigee of the moon, perihelion of a planet" (plural apsides ), 1650s, from Latin apsis "arch, vault" (see apse ).
754 Etymology dictionary, p. ascend (v.).2
late 14c., ascenden, "move upward," from Latin ascendere "to climb up, mount," of planets, constellations, "come over the horizon," figuratively "to rise, reach;" from ad "to" (see ad- ) + scandere "to climb" (see scan (v.)).
755 Etymology dictionary, p. ascendant (adj.).3
… ." The planet that rules the ascendant is believed to have predominant influence on the horoscope. Hence in the ascendant "ruling, dominant" (not, as is often thought …
756 Etymology dictionary, p. aspect (n.).2
… the planets as they appear from earth" (i.e., how they "look at" one another); also "one of the ways of viewing something," from Latin aspectus "a seeing, looking at, sight …
757 Etymology dictionary, p. astrology (n.).3
… and planets on human affairs."
758 Etymology dictionary, p. astrologer (n.).3
… of planets on persons and events" is from c. 1600, however during the early Modern English period when astrologer and astronomer began to be differentiated …
759 Etymology dictionary, p. astromancy (n.).2
"astrology, art of judging occult influences of stars and planets on human affairs," 1650s; see astro- + -mancy "divination by means of."
760 Etymology dictionary, p. astronomy (n.).2
… of planets.