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762 Nave's Topical Index, Stars.10

Stars, Planets 2Kings 23:5;

764 Strong's Greek Concordance, p. PLANETES.1 (James Strong)

(4107) πλανητης, planetes

765 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 …

766 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.)

767 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 …

768 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 …

769 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 …

770 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 …

771 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. 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.

774 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 …

775 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.).

776 Etymology dictionary, p. antecedence (n.).2

… a planet" (from east to west). Related: Antecedency (1590s).

777 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 .

778 Etymology dictionary, p. apsis (n.).2

"perigee of the moon, perihelion of a planet" (plural apsides ), 1650s, from Latin apsis "arch, vault" (see apse ).

779 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.)).

780 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 …