Βελέβατος
Belebatos

Greek noun
loaned from Akkadian

Last edited: 2024-07-15
Primary meaning Mars
Literal translation Mars
Variants
Βελέβατος Belebatos rare
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Mars planet

Βελέβατος· ὁ τοῦ πῦρος ἀστήρ. Βαβυλώνιοι

‘Belebatos: the star of fire. Babylonians.’

— Hesychius β 479

Genre: lexicon
Provenance: Alexandria
Date: 4th-6th century CE

Hesychius Alexandrinus. 2018. Hesychii Alexandrini Lexicon, Vol. 1 (A - Delta), ed. I.C. Cunningham. Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter. 434


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2024). Βελέβατος (Lemma #2255). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2255/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2024). Βελέβατος (Lemma #2255). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2255/

MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2024). Βελέβατος (Lemma #2255). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2255/

Harvard
Peeters, T. (2024) Βελέβατος (Lemma #2255), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2255/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac2255,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {Βελέβατος ({Lemma} #2255)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2255/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2255/},
}