mazzaroth Summary and Overview
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mazzaroth in Easton's Bible Dictionary
prognostications, found only Job 38:32, probably meaning "the twelve signs" (of the zodiac), as in the margin (compare 2 Kings 23:5).
mazzaroth in Smith's Bible Dictionary
(the twelve signs). The margin of the Authorized Version of #Job 38:32| gives Mazzaroth as the name of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
mazzaroth in Schaff's Bible Dictionary
MAZ'ZAROTH , Job 38:32, or MAZZALOTH, 2 Kgs 23:5 (planets), the-name of the twelve signs of the zodiac. Mattock or Egyptian Hoe. (After Wilkinson.) MEAD'OW is in Gen 41:2 the rendering of an Egyptian word denoting rushes or water-plants in general. In Jud 20:33 the Hebrew words rendered with "meadow" would, by a slight change in the punctuation, read "cave," which seems more appropriate.
mazzaroth in Fausset's Bible Dictionary
Job 38:32, "canst thou bring forth the signs of the zodiac at their respective seasons?" Mazzaloth in 2 Kings 23:5 margin, the 12 lodgings or stopping places (from Arabic menzil, "an inn"), in which the sun successively stays or appears to stay in the sky. Gesenius supports margin Job 38:32, "the 12 signs," literally, "premonitions," i.e. "stars that give warnings or presages."