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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 423 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FIRMAMENT , the See also:

sky, the heavens. In the See also:Vulgate the word firmamentum, which means in classical Latin a strengthening or support (firmare, to make See also:firm or strong) was used as the See also:equivalent of amepiwp,a (arepeoew, to make firm or solid) in the LXX., which translates the Heb. rdgiya`. The See also: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 See also:beat out." In See also:Syriac the verb means " to make firm," and is the See also:direct source of the Gr. are piw,ua and the See also:Lat. firmamentum. In See also:ancient See also:astronomy the firmament was the eighth See also:sphere containing the fixed stars surrounding the seven See also:spheres of the See also:planets.

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