כִּיּוּן
kiy.yun
- Kiyyun
- established
- firm
STEPBible TBESH
Glosses: Kiyyun
§ Chiun = "an image" or "pillar"
probably a statue of the Assyrian-Babylonian god of the planet Saturn and used to symbolise Israelite apostasy
BDB (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
Glosses: established; firm
כִּיּוּן כֵּיוָן כִּיּוּן כון כון כַּיָּוָן כְּאָמָן n.pr.dei Am 5:26 kaivânu Arabic Syriac Saturn kaimânu kaiânu Kaʼâmânu established firm , prob. = As. planet(Ar. and Pers. Syr.),regarded as god; orig. pronunc.Schr COT ad loc. cf. Kö ii. 151 (pointingintended to suggest √as something,);=, acc. to Jen Cosm. iii. 502 who der. fr.(cf. Thes; so Zim BP 17); > Hpt ZA ii. 266, 281 f. rds.(for*), reading Babyl. name; v. also M-A JBL 1892, xi. 86 n. 39.