כּוֺכָב noun masculine[Gen 15:5] star (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic כּוֺכְבָא, כּוֺכַבְתָּא , , feminine form specifically of planet Venus, see also WeSkizzen iii. 36, 38; Arabic generally of single stars and probably Aramaic loan-word, WeSkizzen iii. 173; Ethiopic ; probably for *כבכב see Mahri kubkob, kobkib, etc., MaltzanZMG 1873, 227 and Assyrian kakkabu DlHWB 336; Punic κακαβουμ (Dioscorides), name of a plant, probably from shape of seed-cup, BlauZMG xxvii, 1873, 529; on formation compare NöM § 109 BaNB § 138. 1) — ׳כ absolute [Num 24:17] construct כּוֺכַב [Amos 5:26] plural כּוֺכָבִים [Gen 1:16] + 19 t.; construct כּוֺכְבֵי (כֹּכְבֵי) [Gen 22:17] + 13 t.; כֹּכְבֵיהֶם [Ezek 32:7] — singular only אֱלֹהֵיכֶם ׳כ [Amos 5:26] (where, however, ׳כ is probably a gloss, so GFM Dec. 19, 1890, and now We; see further כִּיּוּן); and מִיַּעֲקֹב ׳כ [Num 24:12] (J E; || שֵׁבֶט בישׂראל, metaphor of future ruler); elsewhere plural stars, || sun and moon (compare also below) [Gen 1:16] (P) [Ps 136:9] (to rule the night, compare [Gen 1:16]), [Jer 31:35]; [Gen 37:9] (E), Joseph's dream (׳אַחַד עָשָׂר כ = 11 brethren); [Deut 4:19] object of idolatrous worship (compare below); observed in augury ׳הַחֹזִים בַּכּ [Isa 47:13] (of Babylon); [Eccl 12:2] (|| (also) light; figurative of brightness of youth); || sun [Job 9:7] || moon [Ps 8:4] sign of evening [Neh 4:15] (׳מֵעֲלוֺת הַשַּׁחַר עַד צֵאת הַכּ) compare כּוֺכְבֵי נִשְׁכּוֺ [Job 3:9] (apparently sign of dawn); numbered by God [Ps 147:4] simile of abundant posterity, [Gen 15:5]; [Gen 22:17]; [Gen 26:4]; [Exod 32:13] (all J E); of Israel [Deut 1:10]; [Deut 10:22]; [Deut 28:62]; [1Chr 27:32]; [Neh 9:23] of number of merchants of Nineveh [Nah 3:16] as lofty, [Job 22:12] so in figure of haughty nations [Obad 1:4]; [Isa 14:13] compare symbolic vision of Daniel (|| צָבָא, צְבָא הַשָּׁמַיִם) [Dan 8:10] simile of brightness of righteous [Dan 12:3] not pure (זַכּוּ) before God [Job 25:5] (|| moon); darkened in Yahweh's judgment [Joel 2:10]; [Joel 4:15]; [Ezek 32:7] (|| sun and moon; so) [Isa 13:10] (|| also כְּסִילֵיהֶם); personified: as fighting [Judg 5:20] shouting [Job 38:7] (בְּרָןיַֿחַד כּוֺכְבֵי בֹקֶר, || בְּנֵי אֱלֹחִים); praising [Ps 148:3] (כּוֺכְבֵי אוֺר, || sun and moon). — On stars in Arabic mythology see WeSkizzen iii. 173 f.
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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