Constellation
Easton's Bible Dictionary [1]
Isaiah 13:10 Kesil Job 9:938:31
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1):
(n.) An assemblage of splendors or excellences.
(2):
(n.) Fortune; fate; destiny.
(3):
(n.) A cluster or group of fixed stars, or dvision of the heavens, designated in most cases by the name of some animal, or of some mythologial personage, within whose imaginary outline, as traced upon the heavens, the group is included.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
a cluster of stars, stands in the Auth. Vers. only in Isaiah 13:10 ("the stars of heaven and constellations thereof shall not give their light"), for the Heb. כְּסַיל, kesil' (in the plur.), i.e. the fat or clear (Sept. ᾿Ωρίων, Vulg. splendor), as a designation apparently of the large starry bodies generally. The same (Heb.) word elsewhere designates some special assemblage of stars ("Orion," Job 9:9; Job 38:31; Amos 5:8); and once the name of a town ("Chesil," Joshua 15:30). (See Schnaar, Ueb. d. Sternbilder. etc. Rink. 1791.) (See Astronomy).
