קִיקָיוֹן
kikayon · qiqayon plant
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7021 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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kikayon (קִיקָיוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “qiqayon plant”.
"Qiqayon": a plant that gives shade, probably the castor-oil plant (the identification is not certain).
How to say it
ki·ka·yon
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A shrub, probably a castor-oil bush, that shaded Jonah.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Jonah 4:6
And YHWH Elohim appointed a castor-oil plant, and it grew up over Jonah to be shade over his head, to deliver him from his evil; and Jonah rejoiced over the plant with great joy.
- Jonah 4:7
But Elohim appointed a worm when the dawn came up the next day, and it struck the plant, and it withered.
- Jonah 4:9
Then Elohim said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry about the plant?” And he said, “I do well to be angry, to the point of death.”
- Jonah 4:10
And YHWH said, “You had pity on the plant, for which you did not labor and which you did not make grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night.
And 1 more times.