hebrew #3594 - כִּיּוּן Kiyyun
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance Chiun From kuwn; properly, a statue, i.e. Idol; but used (by euphemism) for some heathen deity (perhaps corresponding to Priapus or Baal-peor) -- Chiun. see HEBREW kuwn Englishman's Concordance Chiun=“an image” or “pillar” 1) probably a statue of the Assyrian-Babylonian god of the planet Saturn and used to symbolise Israelite apostasy Part of Speech: noun proper deity A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H3559 Brown-Driver-Briggsכִּיּוּןproper name, of deityAmos 5:26, probably=Assyrian kaivânu, planet Saturn (Arabic and Persian  Syriac  ), regarded as god; original pronunciation כֵּיוָן SchrCOT on the passage, compare Köii. 151 (pointing כִּיּוּן intended to suggest √ כון as something established, firm); kaimânu=kaiânu, according to JenCosm. iii. 502 who derives from כון (compare Thes; so ZimBP 17); > HptZA ii. 266, 281 f. reads כַּיָּוָן (for כְּאָמָן*), reading the Babylonian name Ka°âmânu; see also M-AJBL 1892, xi. 86 n. 39. כִּיּוֺר, see below I. כור. Englishman's Concordance (References) |