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Orion

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

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Job 9:9 , one of the brightest constellations of the Southern Hemisphere. The Hebrew chesil signifies, according to the best interpreters and the ancient versions, the constellation Orion, which, on account of its supposed connection with storms and tempests, Virgil calls "nimbosus Orion," stormy Orion. In Job 38:31 , fetters are ascribed to him; and this coincides with the Greek fable of the giant Orion, bound in the heavens for an unsuccessful war against the gods.

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Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Orion'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ats/​o/orion.html. 1859.
 
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