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901 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.27
… the planets were used as omens, this name of "slain sheep" was naturally applied to them, even as "augury," divination by the flight of birds, came to represent amongst …
902 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.32
… the planet Saturn takes three years to pass through the constellation Leo, the ravages of lions are predicted to last for that time.
903 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.37
… the planets were first recognized as distinct from the fixed stars. Probably this discovery was intimately connected with the formation of the constellations …
904 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.38
… Planet Saturn: One planet is certainly mentioned in Old Testament, and we may safely infer that the other four were known, since this particular planet is …
905 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.45
… the planet Saturn, and therefore used by the Septuagint as its equivalent, or to an actual error of transcription in the text from which they were translating …
906 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.46
… the planet Saturn; yet though Kaivan is only mentioned here, the nature of the reference would imply that this deity was one familiar both to speaker and hearers …
907 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.48
… the planet Saturn. According to the rabbins, his statue was of brass, with a human body but the head of an ox. On the Carthaginian worship of Moloch or Saturn, Diodorus …
908 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.49
… ," the planet Saturn. No. 176 rev. reads: "Last night Saturn drew near to the moon. Saturn is the star of the sun. This is the interpretation: it is lucky for the king. The …
909 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.50
… the planets (mazzaloth), and to all the host of heaven" ( 2 Kings 23:5 ). He also destroyed the ’asherah and he "defiled Topheth .... that no man might make his son or his daughter …
910 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.51
… translated "planets" in 2 Kings 23:5 is mazzaloth, closely akin to the mazzaroth of Job 38:32. This rendering probably reproduces correctly the meaning of the …
911 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.52
… the planets other than Saturn are not so clear. In Isaiah 65:11 two deities are apparently referred to: "Ye that forsake Yahweh, that forget my holy mountain …
912 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.53
… : The planet Venus is more distinctly referred to in Isaiah 14:12 : "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!" (the King James Version). The word …
913 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.54
Mars and Mercury, the two remaining planets, are not mentioned as such in Old Testament, but the deities connected with them, Nergal = Mars ( 2 Kings 17:30 ) and Nebo = Mercury ( Isaiah 46:1 ), both occur.
914 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.56
… the planets were regarded as being 7 in number, but the idea that the number 7 derived its sacredness from this fact is an inversion of the true state of the …
915 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.57
… , each planet was used three times over on that day, and three planets were used a fourth time. The sun, the fourth planet, took therefore the first hour of the second …
916 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.58
… the planets (Shabbath, fol 156, Colossians 1 ). The above was spoken as a criticism of Rabbi Shimon Ben Laive who had written, "Whoever is born on the first day of …
917 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.61
… , the planets or the spirits supposed to preside over them, the powers that belong to God alone; it was and is essentially idolatrous. As one of the chief living …
918 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astronomy, I.91
… the planets. The celestial bodies could not be referred to in a more simple manner. And this simplicity is marred by no myth; there is not the faintest trace …
919 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astronomy, I.137
… our "planets," but either meteors or comets, more probably the latter, as meteors are more appropriately described as "falling stars."
920 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astronomy, II.20
… attendant planets was traveling rapidly through space, the German astronomer Madler hazarded the suggestion that the center of the sun’s motion, the attracting …