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# כְּסִיל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3685

**Orion** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Orion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3685/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּסִיל²: n.m. Orion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3685/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Orion (relation to above √ obscure);—Am 5:8 Jb 9:9; also משְׁכוֹת כ׳ תְּפַתֵּחַ 38:31 the cords of Orion wilt (canst) thou let out? (appar. some mythological allusion, v. Di Che, to giant bound in skies; cf. Hom Ὠρίωνα δοκεύει, and σθένος Ὠρίωνος); both times associated with the Pleiades; sf. כְּסִילֵיהֶם their Orions Is 13:10, Orion and other constellations of the same brilliancy.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Orion (2); constellations (1); of Orion (1).

## In the verses

[Job 9:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.9/#tree)

עֹֽשֶׂה־עָ֭שׁ כְּסִ֥יל וְכִימָ֗ה וְחַדְרֵ֥י תֵמָֽן׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].makes \[the\].Bear Orion and Pleiades and.\[the\] chambers of.\[the\].south

*JPS 1917:* Who maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

[Job 38:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.31/#tree)

הַֽ֭תְקַשֵּׁר מַעֲדַנּ֣וֹת כִּימָ֑ה אֽוֹ־מֹשְׁכ֖וֹת כְּסִ֣יל תְּפַתֵּֽחַ׃

*Word for word:* will you.bind.on? the.bonds of.Pleiades or? the.cords of.Orion will.you.loosen

*JPS 1917:* Canst thou bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3685/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).