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*[[Daniel C. Peterson|Peterson, Daniel C.]], [[John Gee]], and [[Wiliiam J. Hamblin]]. [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=40&chapid=161 "And I Saw the Stars -- The Book of Abraham and Ancient Geocentric Astronomy"] In ''Astronomy, Papyrus, and Covenant'', edited by John Gee, ##-##. Provo, UT:[[Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies|FARMS]], 2005.
*[[Daniel C. Peterson|Peterson, Daniel C.]], [[John Gee]], and [[Wiliiam J. Hamblin]]. [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=40&chapid=161 "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:[[Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies|FARMS]], 2005.


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Revision as of 10:29, 2 September 2018

Pearl of Great Price PN 1. KOKOB “star” Abraham 3:13.

Hebrew kōkāb “star” (Arabic al-kawkab), Akkadian kukkabū ( Sumerian MÚL). Indeed, circa 1,500 B.C. - 300 A.D. circumpolar KochabUrsae 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

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  1. 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.