Orion: Heb. Kesil; i.e., "the fool", the name of a constellation
(Job 9:9)
(Job 38:31; Amos 5:8) consisting of about eighty stars. The Vulgate
renders thus, but the LXX. renders by Hesperus, i.e., "the
evening-star," Venus. The Orientals "appear to have conceived of this
constellation under the figure of an impious giant bound upon the
sky." This giant was, according to tradition, Nimrod, the type of the
folly that contends against God. In
(Isaiah 13:10) the plural form of
the Hebrew word is rendered "constellations."
