[Avodah] Kima

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 03:54:21PM +0300, Lisa Liel via Avodah wrote:
: Everything I can find online identifies Kima, mentioned in Amos and
: Iyov (and later, in the Gemara), as the Pleiades.  But I can't find
: any source that explains how that identification was made.  Does
: anyone know why it's assumed that Kima is the Pleiades?

R Saadia Gaon translates it al turayya, which would be the Pleiades.
The Bedouins still use the name. Kima. IE (Amos 5:8) cites this (not
besheim omero) and rejects it, saying kima is Aldebaran (the left eye
in Taurus).

Shemuel (Berekhoas 58a) describes kima as a cluster of "kemei'ah" stars,
some say they are close together, some say they are not.

Iyov 9:9 refers to "as, kesil vekhimah", and Amos also has "kumah
ukhesil", so we know the names of things in its neighborhood.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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