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Arcturus @ bear-keeper, the name given by the ancients to the brightest star in the constellation Bootes. In the Authorized Version Job:9:9 Job:38:32) it is the rendering of the Hebrew word _'ash_, which probably designates the constellation the Great Bear. This word ('ash) is supposed to be derived from an Arabic word meaning night-watcher, because the Great Bear always revolves about the pole, and to our nothern hemisphere never sets.

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