From The Alpha and the Omega - Volume III
by Jim A. Cornwell, Copyright © July 20, 2002, all rights reserved "Volume III - The Seventh Month - Star Names for Corona Borealis"
In the Seventh Month of Libra

Star Names of Corona Borealis
a Gemma or Alphecca which means "the gem."

• Alphecca is an older name, which in Arabic means "the brightest."
• Arabic Al Phecca which also means "The Shining."
• Arabic Al-Fakkah, means "the broken" (ring of stars).
• One source claims it is called Al Phena, "the shining one."
• Rolleston claims this is in Psalm 50:2 which is shining (actually in the KJV "shined").
  • Hebrew yapha', yaw-fah', a primary root to shine, be light, shew, self, (cause to) shine (forth).
• Shining or Brightest.
  • Hebrew nogahh, no'-gah, from Heb. nagahh, naw-gaw, a primary root to glitter, shine, thus brilliancy, shining.
• Sumerian BAL.TÉSH.A, Akkadian kakkab balti, "Star of Dignity," Corona Borealis (?), or the star name for a (Gemma or Alphecca, the gem, Arabic, the brightest, the shining).
• Other words for Shining from the Holy Bible:
  • Ziz.
    • Hebrew tsits, shining, a cliff near the West side of the Red Sea on the way from En Gedi to Tekoa.    Jehoshaphat had a miraculous victory over a great horde of Moabite, Ammonites and some Syrian here.
    • Flowers.
      • Hebrew tsiyts, tseets, or tsits, from Heb. tsuwts, tsoots, a primary root to twinkle, thus properly glistening, i.e. a burnished plate, also a flower (as bright colored).

b Nusakan or Nusa'kan which is Arabic for "two lines [of stars]."

• Arabic An-Nasaqan, means "the two series."

g Coronae Borealis (no name).

d Coronae Borealis (no name).

    Some of the other stars not shown here are e, q, x, and n round out the 8 stars in Coronae Borealis.


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