כְּסִילKᵉçîyl
Orion (Amos 5:8; Job 9:9; Job 38:31; Isaiah 13:10)
Pronunciation: kes-eel' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3685
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 4 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?
- Isaiah 13:10 The heavens will be black above them; the stars will give no light. The sun will be dark when it rises, and the moon will provide no light.
- 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).