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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.". R.H. Allen , Starnames, Their Lore and Meaning, , [1990], 429, Πλειάδα, the Septuagint's rendering of the Hebrew 'Ash, is manifestly incorrect, but may have misled the later Rabbis who aplied this last word to the group in Taurus. THe Peshitta-Syriac Version translates the Mazzaroth of the Book of Job by 'galta, meaning our Wain. R.H. Allen , Starnames, Their Lore and Meaning, , [1990], 432, The Hebrew 'Ash, or 'Ayish, is reproduced by, or was derived from, the Arabic Banat Na'ash al Kubra, the Daughters of the Great Bier, i.e. the Mourners, -- the Benenas, Bethasch, and Beneth As of Chilmead and Christmannus, -- applied to the three stars in the extreme end of the group...
R.H. Allen , Starnames, Their Lore and Meaning, , [1990], 99, Arcturus ... And it is the popularly supposed that our Arcturus is that of the Book of Job, xxxviii, 32; but there it merely is one of the early titles of Ursa Major, the Revised Version correctly rendering it "the Bear". Still, even now, the Standard Dictionary quotes for the star the Authorized Version's "Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?" But, like other prominant stars, it shared its name with its constellation -- in fact, probably at first, and as late as Pliny's day, was a constellation by itself. R.H. Allen , Starnames, Their Lore and Meaning, , [1990], 101, John de Wiclif, in his translation of Amos, v, 8, in 1383, had it Arture, which he took from the Vulgate's Arcturus for Ursa Major; but John of Trevisa in 1398 more correctly wrote: Arthurus is a signe made of VII starres, . . . but prperly Arthurus is a sterre sette behynde the tayle of the synge that hyght Vrsa maior. Karel van der Toorn , Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible, , [1999], p. 17-18, 203, 
J.P. van de Giessen , Blog Aantekeningen bij de Bijbel, February 6, 2012, Astronomie in Job
