R.H. Allen, Starnames, Their Lore and Meaning, [1990], 362 Sir William Drummond asserted that in the Zodiac which the patriarch Abraham knew it was an Eagle; and some commentators have located here the biblical Chambers of the South, Scorpio being directly opposite the Pleiades on the sphere, both thought to be mentioned in the same passage of the Book of Job with two other opposed constellations, the Bear and Orion; but the original usually is considdered a reference to the southern heavens in general. Aben Ezra identified Scorpio, or Anteares, with the K ͤsil of the Hebrews; although that people generaly considered these stars as a Scorpion, ther 'Akrabh...
R.H. Allen, Starnames, Their Lore and Meaning, [1990], 422 The Hebrew word 'Ash or 'Ayish in the Book of Job, ix, 9 and xxxviii, 32, supposed to refer to the Square in this constellation as a Bier, not a Bear, was translated Arcturus by Sain Jerome in the Vulgate ; and this was adopted in the version of 1611 authorized by King James. Hence the popular belief that the Bible mentions our star α Boötes; But Umbreit had alread corrected this to "the Bear and her Young", and in the Revision of 1885 the patriarch talks to us of "the Bear with her train", these latter being represented by the three tail stars. Von Herder strangely rendered the first of these passages, as "Libra and the Pole Star, the Seven Stars"; but the second, more correctly, as "the Bear and her young" feeding around the pole; or, by an other tradition, the nightly wanderer, a mother of the stars seeking her lost children, -- those that no longer are visible. The Breeches Bible has this marginal note to its word Arcturus: "The North Star, with those that are about him.".
Vertaling Bijbel, Kanttekeningen SV, [], Die den [13]Wagen maakt, den [14]Orion en het [15]Zevengesternte, en de [16]binnenkameren van het Zuiden; 13. Een gesternte des hemels, hedendaags ook alzo genaamd, en anders geheten Arctos, of Ursa; sommigen verstaan het gesternte genoemd Arcturus. Zie hiervan ook onder, hfdst.38 vs.32. 14. Een gesternte, zich vertonende in December tot de lente toe. Zie ook hiervan onder, hfdst.38;31, en Amos 5:8. 15. Ook een gesternte, of teken des hemels, genaamd van de Latijnen Virgiliae, van de Grieken Pleiades, van de onzen het Zevengesternte, met de lente voortkomende; waarvan zie mede onder, hfdst.38 vs.31. 16. Of, vertrekken, of heimelijkheden. Versta hiermede de sterren, welke zijn omtrent den zuidpool, en omdat zij ten meeste van ons, die omtrent den noordpool wonen, niet gezien worden, de heimelijkheden, binnenkamers, of vertrekplaatsen genaamd worden.