Strong's Concordance Kiyyun: a heathen god Original Word: כִּיּוּןPart of Speech: Proper Name Transliteration: Kiyyun Phonetic Spelling: (kee-yoon') Definition: a heathen god NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definition a heathen god NASB Translation Kiyyun (1). Brown-Driver-Briggs כִּיּוּן proper name, of deity Amos 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. 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 Forms and Transliterations כִּיּ֣וּן כיון kî·yūn kiYun kîyūnLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts |