Brewer's: Son of the Star

[Bar Cochab]. A name assumed by Simon the Jew, in the reign of Hadrian, who gave himself out to be the “Star out of Jacob” mentioned in Numbers xxiv. 17.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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