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921 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Planets.2
Planets - plan'-ets (mazzaloth).
922 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Rephan.2
Rephan - re'-fan: A name for Chiun, the planet Saturn.
923 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sabbath.14
… seven planets) have now been almost entirely abandoned (see ASTRONOMY, sec. I, 5). The disposition at present is to regard the day as originally a lunar festival …
924 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Star of the Magi.7
6. The Star Not a Conjunction of Planets
925 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Star of the Magi.18
… the planets Jupiter and Saturn in the constellation Pisces, the two planets being so close as to seem a single star. This conjunction took place in the month …
926 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Star of the Magi.19
… the planet Venus which shines with extraordinary brilliancy when in particular parts of her orbit, and have imagined, especially when she has been thus …
927 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Star of the Magi.23
… , the planet Venus is, after the two "great lights," the brightest object in the heavens, but temporary stars are on record that have even exceeded Venus in brightness …
928 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Star of the Magi.24
… the planets, a comet, or a temporary star; or whether it was a supernatural light like the pillar of fire in the wilderness. But that verse has not been given. The …
929 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. World, Cosmological.22
… little planet life has effloresced into reason, and we have as yet no ground in science for believing that anywhere else it has ever done so (compare Dr. A. R. Wallace's …
930 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Ashtoreth.2 (William Smith)
… the planet Venus; and Astarte was by many identified with the goddess Venus (or Aphrodite), as well as with the plant of that name. It is certain that the worship …
931 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Earth.2 (William Smith)
… the planet on which man dwells. The Hebrew language discriminates between these two by the use of separate terms, adamah for the former, erets for the latter …
932 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Idolatry.4 (William Smith)
… , the planets or the zodiacal signs received, next to the sun and moon, their share of popular adoration. 2 Kings 23:5. Beast-worship, as exemplified in the calves …
933 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Nebo.5 (William Smith)
… the planet nearest the sun. In Babylonia Nebo held a prominent place from an early time. The ancient town of Borsippa was especially under his protection …
934 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Phœnice.3 (William Smith)
… five planets, or, as it might have been expressed according to ancient notions, of the seven planets --the most beautiful and perhaps the most natural form of …
935 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Sabbath.2 (William Smith)
… , and planets.) And that this was especially one of the institutions adopted by Moses from the ancient patriarchal usage is implied in the very words of the …
936 Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (KJV), p. MAZZALAH.2 (James Strong)
apparently from 'nazal' ( nazal ) in the sense of raining; a constellation, i.e. Zodiacal sign (perhaps as affecting the weather):--planet. Compare 'mazzarah' ( mazzarah ).
937 Strong's Greek Dictionary (KJV), p. PLANETES.1 (James Strong)
(4107) πλανητης, planetes [plan-ay'-tace]
938 Strong's Greek Dictionary (KJV), p. PLANETES.2 (James Strong)
from πλανος - planos πλανος; a rover ("planet"), i.e. (figuratively) an erratic teacher:--wandering.
939 Thayer's Greek Lexicon, p. ἀστήρ.2
… not planets, the motion of which is scarcely noticed by the commonalty, but far more probably comets, which Jude regards as stars which have left the course …
940 Thayer's Greek Lexicon, p. φωσφόρος.2
… ), the planet Venus, the morning-star, day-star (Plato, Tim. Locr., p. 96 e.; Plutarch, others): 2 Peter 1:19, on the meaning of this passage, see λύχνος .