1 Enoch 44

I also saw another thing about the lightnings: how some of the stars rise and become lightnings, and cannot give up their new form.

1Also another phenomenon I saw in regard to the lightnings: how some of the stars arise and become lightnings and cannot part with their new form.

Note"Lightnings" is a plural in the older English sense of separate flashes, not lightning as a single mass phenomenon. In the astronomical parts of this book, lightning is treated as one class of heavenly light alongside the stars, the thunder and the winds, each with its own assigned place and behavior, so a star becoming a lightning is a shift from one class of luminary to another rather than a figure of speech. The Ethiopic behind "cannot part with their new form" is obscure, but the sense appears to be that the change is permanent. This chapter is a single sentence, and is usually taken to be a fragment: either a stray piece of the astronomical material or the surviving scrap of a longer passage.