4208. mazzaloth
Strong's Concordance
mazzaloth: constellations, perhaps signs of the zodiac
Original Word: מַזָּלוֹת
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: mazzaloth
Phonetic Spelling: (maz-zaw-law')
Short Definition: constellations
Brown-Driver-Briggs
מַזָּלוֺת noun [feminine] plural constellations, perhaps signs of the zodiac (probably loan-word from Assyrian manzaltu, mazaltu, station, abode (of gods) DlHWB 457; Prol. 142 JenKosmologie 348; compare Late Hebrew מַזָּלוֺת, id.; מַזָּל Aramaic מַזָּלָא, star of fortune or fatePhoenician זל נעם[מ] CIS95, 8 (Vog; bilingual inscription; Greek ἀγαθῇ τύχῃ); Syriac zodiac PS109; mansiones lunae, Lexicons, PS2332; Arabic (loan-word according to HoffmZAW iii. 1883, 110. Suidas μαζουρωθ = ζωδία); — only ׳לַמַּזּ 2 Kings 23:5 as object of worship (+ בֵּעַל, שֶׁמֶשׁ, יָרֵחַ, and כָּלצְֿבָא הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם) ᵐ5 τοῖς μαζουρωθ; probably= מַזַּרוֺת Job 38:32.

מַזְלֵג, [מִזְלָגָה] see זלג. מְזִמָּה see זמם..

מִזְמוֺר see I. זמר.

מְזַמֶּרֶת, מַזְמֵרָה see II. זמר.

מִזְעָר see זער.

I. מזר (? √ of following so Thes781 compare BaNB §164 c; otherwise GeiUrschrift 52: Late Hebrew מָזַר and Aramaic be bad (of eggs), Arabic be foul, corrupt).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
planet

Apparently from nazal in the sense of raining; a constellation, i.e. Zodiacal sign (perhaps as affecting the weather) -- planet. Compare mazzarah.

see HEBREW nazal

see HEBREW mazzarah

Forms and Transliterations
וְלַמַּזָּל֔וֹת ולמזלות velammazzaLot wə·lam·maz·zā·lō·wṯ wəlammazzālōwṯ
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Strong's Hebrew 4208
1 Occurrence


wə·lam·maz·zā·lō·wṯ — 1 Occ.

2 Kings 23:5
HEB: לַשֶּׁ֤מֶשׁ וְלַיָּרֵ֙חַ֙ וְלַמַּזָּל֔וֹת וּלְכֹ֖ל צְבָ֥א
NAS: and to the moon and to the constellations and to all
KJV: and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host
INT: to the sun the moon the constellations all the host

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