FOOTNOTES:
[217:1] Glossary of Greek Birds, pp. 28, 29.
[221:1] R. H. Allen, Star Names and their Meanings, p. 401.
[223:1] Berachoth, fol. 59, col. 1.
[229:1] The System of the Stars, 1st edit., pp. 230-232.
CHAPTER VII
ORION
Kĕsīl, the word rendered by our translators "Orion," occurs in an astronomical sense four times in the Scriptures; twice in the Book of Job, once in the prophecy of Amos, and once, in the plural, in the prophecy of Isaiah. In the three first cases the word is used in conjunction with Kīmah, "the Pleiades," as shown in the preceding chapter. The fourth instance is rendered in the Authorized Version—