FIRMAMENT

Firmament

The firmament is the sky, conceived as a solid dome. According to Genesis, God created the firmament to separate the "waters above" the earth from those below . The word is anglicised from Latin firmamentum, which appears in the Vulgate.

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firmament

Noun

  1. The vault of the heavens; the sky.
    And God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters."
  2. basis.
  3. The field or sphere of an interest or activity.
    the international fashion firmament
  4. In the geocentric Ptolemaic system, the eighth sphere, which carried the fixed stars.


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