Word Study · Strong's H3598 · Hebrew

כִּימָה

Kimah

kee-maw'

Strong's 1890 spelling: Kîymâh

“a cluster of stars, i.e. the Pleiades”

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

a cluster of stars, i.e. the Pleiades

Rendered in the KJV as

Pleiades, seven stars.

3
occurrencesin the Old Testament
2 of 39
Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
3
inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 3 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 3

וְכִימָ֗ה1
כִימָ֜ה1
כִּימָ֑ה1

How it is rendered · 2

Pleiades2
and Pleiades1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 2

noun · feminine singular2
conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular1

Show the grammar codes as tagged

HNtfsa · 2
HC/Ntfsa · 1

All 3, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Job2 of 3 · 67%
Amos1 of 3 · 33%

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Job2 occurrences

Amos1 occurrence

Amos 5:8כִימָ֜הkhimahnoun · feminine singularHe who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth— the LORD is His name—here: Pleiades

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