thing
Bear
עַ֫יִשׁ
The Bear is a constellation referred to in God's speeches to Job, showcasing God's power and wisdom in creation.
- verses
- 2
- first named
- Job 9:9
- last named
- Job 38:32
Description
Bear in the text
The Bear is mentioned twice in the Book of Job as part of God's discourse with Job regarding the wonders of creation. In Job.9.9, Job acknowledges God as the Maker of the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, recognizing God's power and sovereignty over the stars. Later, in Job.38.32, God questions Job about his ability to guide the Bear with its cubs, emphasizing Job's limited understanding compared to God's wisdom. The Bear likely refers to the constellation Ursa Major, also known as the Great Bear, which is visible in the northern sky. The Biblical references to the Bear point to God's authority over the celestial bodies and His intricate design of the universe, far beyond human comprehension.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Stands in the same events as
- Job1 event
- Leading Out1 event
The pattern
Where Bear is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
2 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Job (2).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere.
Sources