Meaning of Name: A constellation
Strong's Concordance #H3598
Pleiades is the name of six or seven star constellation that both God and Job reference as an example of the Lord's power and wisdom. The Pleiades star cluster is part of the neck of Taurus the Bull, one of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
The book of Job, as well as the book from the prophet Amos, mentions the Pleiades. In Amos' case, in the King James Bible, he calls them "the seven stars." Biblical translations such as the Holy Bible Faithful Version, the NKJV, the NIV and others use the word "pleiades" in Amos 5:8.
Important Verses
Job 9:1 - 4, 6 - 9
Then Job answered and said, I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? . . .
Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars. Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
Job 38:1 - 3, 31
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man: for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me . . .
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
Amos 5:8
Seek him that maketh the seven stars (Pleiades) and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name . . . (KJV).
(he who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns blackness into dawn and darkens day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land - the Lord is his name . . . (NIV).