H7021

קִיקָיוֹן

qi.qa.vonH:N-M

plant

1) a plant 1a) perhaps a gourd, castor-oil plant, bottle-gourd

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

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 שֶׁמֶן קִיק 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); — Jonah 4:6 (twice in verse); Jonah 4:7; Jonah 4:9; Jonah 4:10.


קִיקָלוֺן see קלל.


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