thumb|An artist's depiction of the early Hebrew conception of the cosmos. The firmament (raqia), Sheol, and [[Tehom are depicted.]]
thumb|An artist's depiction of the early Hebrew conception of the cosmos. The firmament (raqia), Sheol, and [[Tehom are depicted.]]
In Ancient Near Eastern cosmology, the firmament was a celestial barrier that separated the Heavenly waters above from the Earth below. In Biblical cosmology, the firmament ( rāqīaʿ) was the vast solid dome created by God during the Genesis creation narrative to separate the primal sea into upper and lower portions so that the dry land could appear.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).