Lexical Definition

‎כּוֹכָב‎ kôwkâb (ko-kawb') star ^H:N-M
probably from the same as ‎כַּבּוֹן‎ (in the sense of rolling) or ‎כָּוָה‎ (in the sense of blazing)

star(-gazer).

• a star (as round or as shining)
• figuratively, a prince

1) star
1a) of Messiah, brothers, youth, numerous progeny, personification, God's omniscience (fig.)

See Greek: ἀστήρ · ἄστρον

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎כּוֺכָב‎ noun masculine^{Gen 15:5} star (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic ‎כּוֺכְבָא‎, ‎כּוֺכַבְתָּא‎ , , feminine form specifically of planet Venus, see also We^{Skizzen iii. 36, 38}; Arabic generally of single stars and probably Aramaic loan-word, We^{Skizzen iii. 173}; Ethiopic ; probably for *‎כבכב‎ see Mahri kubkob, kobkib, etc., Maltzan^{ZMG 1873, 227 and} Assyrian kakkabu Dl^{HWB 336}; Punic κακαβουμ (Dioscorides), name of a plant, probably from shape of seed-cup, Blau^{ZMG xxvii, 1873, 529}; on formation compare Nö^{M § 109} Ba^{NB § 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 We^{Skizzen iii. 173 f}.

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