קיקיון

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• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ki.kaˈjon/

קִיקָיוֹן • (kikayón) m (plural indefinite קִיקְיוֹנִים)

1. (Biblical Hebrew) kikayon
   • Tanach, Jonah 4:6, with translation of the King James Version:

     וַיְמַ֣ן יְהֹוָֽה־אֱ֠לֹהִ֠ים קִיקָי֞וֹן וַיַּ֣עַל ׀ מֵעַ֣ל לְיוֹנָ֗ה לִֽהְי֥וֹת צֵל֙ עַל־רֹאשׁ֔וֹ לְהַצִּ֥יל ל֖וֹ מֵרָֽעָת֑וֹ וַיִּשְׂמַ֥ח יוֹנָ֛ה עַל־הַקִּֽיקָי֖וֹן שִׂמְחָ֥ה גְדוֹלָֽה׃

     And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

2. (Modern Israeli Hebrew) castor bean, castor oil plant (Ricinus communis)

• → English: kikayon

• “קיקיון” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
• H7021 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible