(
kawkabun
) gen. of
single stars
and prob. Aramaic loan-word,
We
Skizzen iii. 173
; Ethiopic
˜˜˜
(
kokab
); prob. for
כבכב
v.
Mahri
kubkob, kobkîb
, etc., Maltzan
ZMG
1873, 227
and Assyrian
kakkabu
Dl
HWB 336; Pun.
κακαβουµ
(Dioscorides), name of a plant, prob. from shape of seed-cup, Blau
ZMG
xxvii, 1873,
529; on formation
cf.
Nö
M § 109 Ba
NB
§ 138. 1
)
—
כ׳
abs.
Nu 24:1
7;
cstr.
כֹּוכַב
Am 5:26
;
pl.
כֹּוכָבִים
Gn 1:16
+
19 times;
cstr.
כֹּוכְבֵי
(
כֹּכְבֵי
)
Gn 22:17
+
13 times;
כֹּכְבֵיהֶם
Ez 32:
7;
—sg.
only
כ׳ אֱלֹהֵיכֶם
Am 5:26
(where, however,
כ׳
is prob. a gloss, so
GFM
Dec. 19, 1890, and now
We
;
v.
further
כִּיּוּן
), and
כ׳ מִיַּעֲקֹב
Nu 24:17
(JE;
||
שֵׁבֶט בישׂראל
,
metaph.
of future ruler); elsewhere
pl.
stars
,
||
sun and moon (
cf.
also
infr.
)
Gn 1:16
(
P
)
ψ 136:9
(to rule the night,
cf.
Gn 1:1
6),
Je 31:35 Gn 37:9
(
E
), Joseph’s dream
(
אַחַד עָשָׂר כ׳
=
11
brethren);
Dt 4:19
obj.
of idol. worship (
cf.
infr
.); observed in augury
הַחֹזִים בַּכּ׳
Is 47:13
(of Babylon);
Ec 12:2
(
||
(also)
light;
fig.
of brightness of youth);
||
sun
Jb 9:7
;
||
moon
ψ 8:4
; sign of evening
Ne 4:15
(
מֵעֲלֹות הַשַּׁחַר עַד צֵאת הַכּ׳
)
cf.
כֹּוכְבֵּי נִשְׁכֹּו
Jb 3:9
(appar. sign of dawn); numbered by God
ψ 147:4
;
sim.
of abundant posterity,
Gn 15:5
;
22:17
;
26:4 Ex 32:13
(all JE); of Isr.
Dt 1:10
;
10:22
;
28:62 1 Ch 27:32 Ne 9:23
; of number of merchants of Nineveh
Na 3:16
; as lofty,
Jb 22:12
; so in
fig.
of haughty nations
Ob 4
is
14:13
;
cf.
symbolic vision of Dn (
||
צָבָא
,
צְבָא הַשָּׁמַיִם
)
Dn 8:10
;
sim.
of brightness of righteous
Dn 12:3
; not pure
(
זַכּוּ
) before God
Jb 25:5
(
||
moon); darkened in Yahweh’s judgment
Jo 2:10
;
4:15 Ez 32:7
(
||
sun and moon; so)
Is 13:10
(
||
also
כְּסִילֵיהֶם
); personified: as fighting
Ju 5:20
; shouting
Jb 38:7
(
בְּרָן־יַחַד כֹּוכְבֵי בֹקֶר
,
||
בְּנֵי אֱלֹהִים
); praising
ψ 148:3
(
כֹּוכְבֵי אֹור
,
||
sun and moon).—On stars in Arabic mythol.
v. We
Skizzen iii.173 f.
•כָּבֵד
S
3513, 3515, 3516
TWOT
943, 943a, 943b
GK
3877, 3878, 3879
vb.
be heavy, weighty, burdensome, honoured
(
NH
Pi.
honour
, and deriv.,
כֹּבֶד
weight;
Ph.
n.pr.f.
כבדת
=
honoured one
, and in
cpd. n.pr
.; Ethiopic
˜˜˜
(
kabda
)
be heavy
,
Nö
T. Nöldeke, Mandäische Grammatik
.
Ba
J. Barth,
Nominalbildung
.
sg.
singular.
GFM
G. F. Moore.
We
J. Wellhousen.
metaph.
metaphor, metaphorically.
E
Elohist.
sim.
simile.
n.pr.
nomen proprium,
proper name.