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The '''firmament''' is the sky. It is debated on whether the term can be interpreted to mean expanse or whether it should be translated to mean a solid dome.<ref name="Holding">[http://creation.com/is-the-raqiya-firmament-a-solid-dome Is the raqiya‘ (‘firmament’) a solid dome? Equivocal language in the cosmology of Genesis 1 and the Old Testament: a response to Paul H. Seely] by [[JP Holding|James Patrick Holding]]</ref> Many modern translations translate the Hebrew word raqiya as "expanse", but the King James Bible (KJV), for example, translated the word as firmament..<ref name="Holding" /> According to Genesis in the KJV version, God created the firmament to separate the "waters above" the earth from those below: "And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."<ref>{{bibleverse|Genesis|1:6|KJV}}</ref> The word is anglicized from Latin ''firmamentum'', which appears in the [[Vulgate]]. This, in turn, is a Latinization of the Greek ''stereoma'', used in the Septuagint.
The '''firmament''' is the sky. It is debated on whether the term can be interpreted to mean expanse or whether it should be translated to mean a solid dome.<ref name="Holding">[http://creation.com/is-the-raqiya-firmament-a-solid-dome Is the raqiya‘ (‘firmament’) a solid dome? Equivocal language in the cosmology of Genesis 1 and the Old Testament: a response to Paul H. Seely] by [[JP Holding|James Patrick Holding]]</ref> Many modern translations translate the Hebrew word raqiya as "expanse", but the King James Bible (KJV), for example, translated the word as firmament..<ref name="Holding" /> According to Genesis in the KJV version, God created the firmament to separate the "waters above" the earth from those below: "And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."<ref>{{bibleverse|Genesis|1:6|KJV}}</ref> The word is anglicized from Latin ''firmamentum'', which appears in the [[Vulgate]]. This, in turn, is a Latinization of the Greek ''stereoma'', used in the Septuagint.
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|hebrew=רקיע
|hebrew=רָקִיעַ
|hebrewr=raqiya`
|hebrewr=raqiya`
|strong=H7549
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