Pleiades

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun ·pl A group of small stars in the neck of the constellation Taurus.

II. Pleiades ·noun ·pl The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky.

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  • Pleiades

    Heb. kimah, "a cluster" (Job 9:9; 38:31; Amos 5:8, A.V., "seven stars;" R.V., "Pleiades"), a name gi...

    Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • pleiades

    The celebrated cluster of stars in Taurus, of which seven or eight are visible to the naked eye; the...

    The Sailor's Word-Book

  • Pleiades

    The Hebrew word (cimah) so rendered occurs in (Job 9:9; 38:31; Amos 6:8) In the last passage our Aut...

    William Smith's Bible Dictionary