Moon Celestial Body

† יָרֵחַ n.m. Jos 10:13 moon, especially poet. (NH id.; Ph. ירח; Assyrian iriḥu, according to PinchesBOR Aug. 1888, 207; Ethiopic ወርሕ moon, month; cf. sub יֶרַח)—abs. יָרֵחַ Gn 37:9 + 25 times; sf. וִיֽרֵחֵךְ Is 60:20:—moon, usually named with sun Jos 10:12, 13 (poem in JE), ψ 72:5 (עִם־שָׁ֑מֶשׁ וְלִפְנֵי יָרֵחַ), 89:38 (in these two, a symbol of permanence), 121:6 Is 60:19 Hb 3:11 Jo 3:4; obj. of idolatrous worship Jb 31:26 (+ sun); in same sense also + sun and stars Dt 4:19; 17:3 2 K 23:5 Je 8:2; as determiner of feast-times ψ 104:19 (‖ sun); + stars, as shining by night ψ 136:9 (‖ sun, by day), so חֻקֹּת יָרֵחַ Je 31:35 (‖ id.); elsewhere + sun and stars Gn 37:9 (E), Is 13:10 Ez 32:7 Jo 2:10; 4:15 ψ 148:3 Ec 12:2; + stars ψ 8:4 Jb 25:5; with neither sun nor stars only עַד־בְּלִי יָרֵחַ ψ 72:7.

σελήν-η, ἡ, Doric dialect σελάνα [λᾱ] Refs 5th c.BC+, Aeolic dialect σελάννα Refs 7th c.BC+; compare also σεληναίη:— the moon, σ. πλήθουσα the full-moon, Refs 8th c.BC+; σ. ἀεξομένη, ὀλίγη κεράεσσι, Refs 4th c.BC+; a moon's breadth, measure used by early astronomers, Refs 1st c.BC+; νουμηνία κατὰ σελήνην, i.e. by the lunar month, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰς ἡμέρας κατὰ σ. ἄγειν Refs 3rd c.BC+; πρὸς τὴν σ. ὁρᾶν by moonlight, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ ἐκ τῆς σ. νόσος,= σεληνιασμός, Refs 2nd c.AD+; τὴν σ. καθελεῖν, of Thessalian witches, Refs 5th c.BC+ __b month, δεκάτῃ σελήνῃ in the tenth moon, Refs 5th c.BC+; πολλὰς σ. Refs; τὰς ἡμέρας τῆς σ. Refs 5th c.BC+ __2 a moon-shaped wheaten cake, Refs 5th c.BC+ __3 a round table, or tripod, Refs 2nd c.AD+ __4 name of a plant, Ps.-Refs 1st c.AD+ __II as feminine proper name, Selene, the goddess of the moon (never in Refs 8th c.BC+ (σελάνα, σελάννα) from *σελάσνᾱ, compare σέλας.)

† I. לְבָנָה n.f. moon, poet. (NH id.);—ל׳ Is 24:23 + 2 times; shall pale before י׳ Is 24:23 (‖ חַמָּה); shall become like sun (חַמָּה) in day of י׳’s redemption 30:26 (אוֹר הַלְּ׳); sim. of woman’s beauty, יָפָה כַלְּ׳ Ct 6:10 (‖ חַמָּה).

† [שַׂהֲרוֹן] n.[m.] moon, or crescent;—only pl. הַשַּׂהֲרֹנִים of (non-Israel.) ornaments of camels Ju 8:21, kings v 26, women Is 3:18, 𝔊 μηνίσκοι, 𝔙 (Is 3:18) lunulae; on crescent as ornament v. Dozyii. 760 LaneEgypt. ii. 314 PerlesAnal. 79, cf. Frä58.

† מַזָּלוֹת n.[f.]pl. prob. = מַזָּלוֹת q.v. supr. (on ר = ל v. WSG 67, yet also NöZMG xl. 1886, 185) only הֲתֹצִיא מ׳ בְּעִתּוֹ Jb 38:32, where treated as ms., and perhaps understood of some particular star or constellation. 𝔊 μαζουρωθ.