KOKOB
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| Pearl of Great Price PN | 1. | KOKOB “star” Abraham 3:13. |
Hebrew כוכב kōkāb “star” (Arabic al-kawkab), Akkadian kukkabū ( Sumerian MÚL). Indeed, circa 1,500 B.C. - 300 A.D. circumpolar Kochab (β Ursae Minoris, magnitude 2.08) was the North Star closest to the “center” of the night sky (then at declination 83̊.5) – a position now occupied by Polaris (α Ursae Minoris).[1]
The word kōkāb is attested 37 times in the HEBREW Bible, usually plural, except in Numbers 24:17 and Amos 5:26
See also HAH-KO-KAU-BEAM, KOKAUBEAM, KOLOB
Bibliography
- Peterson, Daniel C., John Gee, and Wiliiam J. Hamblin. "And I Saw the Stars -- The Book of Abraham and Ancient Geocentric Astronomy" In Astronomy, Papyrus, and Covenant, edited by John Gee and Brian M. Hauglid. Provo, UT:FARMS, 2005.
Notes
- ↑ Vincent Malmström, Cycles of the Sun, Mysteries of the Moon (Univ. of Texas Press, 1997), 82; Richard Moeschl, Exploring the Sky, rev. ed. (Chicago Review Press, 1993), 390-391.
