Bible dictionaries

Mazzaroth

What Bible dictionaries say about “Mazzaroth”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Mazzaroth - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

Prognostications, found only Job 38:32, probably meaning "the twelve signs" (of the zodiac), as in the margin (comp. 2 Kings 23:5).

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

The article in Easton + Webster 1828

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

maz'-a-roth: The 12 constellations of the Zodiac.

See ASTRONOMY, sec. II, 12.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

The article in ISBE 1915

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

(the twelve signs). The margin of the Authorized Version of (Job 38:32) gives Mazzaroth as the name of the twelve signs of the zodiac.

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

The article in Smith