Lexicon qiqayon: (a plant) perhaps castor-oil plant Original Word: קִיקָיוֹןPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: qiqayon Phonetic Spelling: (kee-kaw-yone') Short Definition: plant NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definition(a plant) perhaps castor-oil plant NASB Translationplant (5).
Brown-Driver-Briggs קִיקָיוֺן noun masculineJonah 4:6 a plant (compare Assyrian Kukkânîtum ( כ) a garden-plant, Dl HWB 327); — usually ricinus (R. communis, Linn. = castor-oil tree; compare Dioscor iv. 164 κίκι (Egypt) = κρότων [ castor-oil tree]; Talmud שֶׁמֶן קִיק see especially Löw p. 353 f.); perhaps < bottle-gourd ( ᵐ5 κολόκυνθα; i.e. cucurbita lagenaria, a vine growing and withering rapidly, Post in Hastings DB ii. 250); — Jonah 4:6 (twice in verse); Jonah 4:7,9,10. קִיקָלוֺן see קלל.
Strong's gourd Perhaps from qayah; the gourd (as nauseous) -- gourd. see HEBREW qayah |
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