כִּימָהKîymâh
perhaps Pleiades (Amos 5:8; Job 9:9; Job 38:31)
Pronunciation: kee-maw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3598
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- Job 9:9 He made all the stars—the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the southern sky.
- Job 38:31 “Can you direct the movement of the stars— binding the cluster of the Pleiades or loosening the cords of Orion?
- Amos 5:8 It is the Lord who created the stars, the Pleiades and Orion. He turns darkness into morning and day into night. He draws up water from the oceans and pours it down as rain on the land. The Lord is his name!
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).