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761 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1168.17 (Matthew Henry)
… stars, planets that are erratic in their motions, keep not that steady regular course which the fixed ones do, but shift their stations, that one has sometimes …
762 Nave’s Topical Index, Planet.1
Planet
763 Nave’s Topical Index, Stars.10
Stars, Planets 2Kings 23:5;
764 Strong’s Hebrew Concordance, p. MAZZALAH.2 (James Strong)
planets 2 Kings 23:5
765 Strong’s Greek Concordance, p. PLANETES.1 (James Strong)
(4107) πλανητης, planetes
766 Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, p. הָבַר.2
… .; & on planets & constellations Id. ib. 95 ff. Epping & Strm Astronomisches aus Bab. 109 ff. ;—but text prob. corrupt; GFM (June, 1892) suggests חֹקְרֵי (cf. חקר את־הארץ Ju 18:2 …
767 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.)
768 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 …
769 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 …
770 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 …
771 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 …
772 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.
773 Etymology dictionary, p. aeroplane (n.).3
… " (see planet ).
774 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.
775 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 …
776 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.).
777 Etymology dictionary, p. antecedence (n.).2
… a planet" (from east to west). Related: Antecedency (1590s).
778 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 .
779 Etymology dictionary, p. apsis (n.).2
"perigee of the moon, perihelion of a planet" (plural apsides ), 1650s, from Latin apsis "arch, vault" (see apse ).
780 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.)).