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FIRMAMENT

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 423 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FAT-FLA
FIRMAMENT , the sky, the heavens. In the
Vulgate
  the word firmamentum, which means in classical Latin a strengthening or support (firmare, to make
firm
  or strong) was used as the equivalent of amepiwp,a (arepeoew, to make
firm
  or solid) in the LXX., which translates the Heb. rdgiya`. The Hebrew probably signifies literally " expanse," and is thus used of the expanse or vault of the sky, the verb from which it is derived meaning " to
beat
  out." In
Syriac
  the verb means " to make firm," and is the
direct
  source of the Gr. are piw,ua and the Lat. firmamentum. In
ancient
  astronomy the firmament was the eighth sphere containing the fixed stars surrounding the seven
spheres
  of the
planets
 .


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