Jove

(jov), n. [ ately, he had to give an account of his journey to obtain it, so as to show that he had not delayed.—Sabbath- It. Giove, ¢ L. Jovis, OL. also Jovos, in cla ical day’s journey, among the ancient Jews, the distance L. only in oblique cases, gen. Jovis, ete., the which a Jew might lawfully traverse on the sabbath day. nom, being supplied by the compound Jupiter, It was a very short journey— supposed to represent the space left between the ark and the tents when the Israel- Juppiter, OL. Joupiter: see Jupiter and Zeus.} ites were encamped in the wilderne , said to be about 1. The highest god of the Romans; Jupiter; 2,000 Hebrew yards, the supreme ruler of heaven and earth, mani- Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount festing himself especially in atmospheric phecalled Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's nomena: as, Jove’s thunderbolts. See Jupiter. journey. Acts i. 12. See what a grace was seated on his brow: Joseph us (War, vy. 2, 8) makes the Mount of Olives to be Hyper i on’s curls; the front of Jove himself. about six stadia from Jerusalem; and it is the distance be- Shak., Hamlet, iii. 4, 56, tween these two places which in Acts i. 12 is given asa Sabbath-day’s journey. 2. The planet Jupiter. [Poetical.] McClintock and Strong, Cyc. Bib. Lit., TX. 190. Or ask of yonder argent fields above Togoa soneney. See go. =Syn. 2. Journey, Travel, Voy- Why Jove’s satellites are le than Jove. age, Trip, Tour, Excursion, Pilgrimage. Journey is a rather Pope, E ay on Man, i. 42. general word, yet journeys are usually of considerable 3+. [J. ¢.] In alchemy, the metal tin.—Bird of length, without implication as to the time of return. Travel Jove, the eagle. is the common word for journeys taken for pleasure in sight-