Word

עַיִשׁ

ʻAyish · H5906 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. Great Bear

    Constellation, often identified with the "Great Bear" or the "Big Dipper" which is part of the "Great Bear"

    Examples

    Job 38:32 “Can you bring out a constellation in its season, And guide the Bear with her satellites?

How it’s used

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Names of Constellations003001002
עַיִשׁ (Ayish) names a constellation, traditionally identified with Arcturus or the Bear (Job 9:9, 38:32).
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5906. Ayish or Ash עַ֫יִשׁ noun feminine a constellation, perhaps Great Bear (compare…
H5906. Ayish
or Ash עַ֫יִשׁ noun feminine a constellation, perhaps Great Bear (compare especially Di) (point perh, עִיֻּשׁ (see Bu and references), compare Syriac PS2866, Brock., name of a star); — ׳וְע עַלבָּֿנֶיהָ Job 38:22 = עָשׁ Job 9:9 (both + כְּסִיל כִּימָה, etc.).
עַיָּת
proper name, of a location see ׳עַ

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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