Job 42:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

He called the name of the first Jemima— Job, being restored to his family and friends, is afterwards blessed with a numerous issue, seven sons and three daughters. Of the former nothing remarkable is recorded; but the names of the daughters are preserved, and they are said to have been the most beautiful women of their time. Their names are certainly of Arabic extraction: the eldest was named ימימה Jemima, which in the Arabic signifies a dove. This name was given to women of the greatest beauty in the east. So Semiramis had her name from Semir-jemama two Arabic words, signifying the brown dove. For the same reason the dove was made the bird of Venus; and we find it placed on the head of the Syrian goddess, whom the Orientals imagine to be the same as Semiramis. The second takes her name קציעה Keziah from the Cassia aromatica, a spice in great reputation in early times, as may be seen Psalms 45:8. This was likewise agreeable to the Arabian customs, of naming their women from the products of the earth, as flowers, fruits, gums, and the like. The third was named הפוךֶ קרן Keren-happuch, rightly rendered, Cornu-stibii, the horn of stibium: the stibium was an ornamental colouring used by the women to make their eyebrows or eyelids black, which they esteemed very beautiful. See our note on 2 Kings 9:30. This daughter of Job had her name, probably, from the beautiful black colour of her eyelids and eyebrows. See Costard's Dissert. on the Mythological Astron. of the Ancients, and Heath's Life of Job.