Lexical Summary qiqayon: (a plant) perhaps castor-oil plant Original Word: קִיקָיוֹןTransliteration: qiqayon Phonetic Spelling: (kee-kaw-yone') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: (a plant) perhaps castor-oil plant Meaning: (a plant) perhaps castor-oil plant Strong's Concordance gourd Perhaps from qayah; the gourd (as nauseous) -- gourd. see HEBREW qayah Brown-Driver-Briggs H7021. qiqayon קִיקָיוֺן noun masculineJonah 4:6 a plant (compare Assyrian Kukkânîtum (כ) a garden-plant, DlHWB 327); — usually ricinus (R. communis, Linn. = castor-oil tree; compare Dioscoriv. 164 κίκι (Egypt) = κρότων [castor-oil tree]; Talmud קִיק שֶׁמֶן see especially Löwp. 353 f.); perhaps < bottle-gourd (ᵐ5 κολόκυνθα; i.e. cucurbita lagenaria, a vine growing and withering rapidly, Post in HastingsDB ii. 250); — 4:6 (twice in verse); 4:7, 9, 10. קִיקָלוֺן see קלל. |
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