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# כִּיּוּן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3594

**Chiun** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Chiun [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3594/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כִּיּוּן: n.pr.dei. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3594/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.dei. Am 5:26, prob. = Assyrian kaivânu, planet Saturn (Arabic and Pers. كَيْوَانٌ, Syriac ܟܶܐܘܳܢ), regarded as god; orig. pronunc. כֵּיוָן Schr COT ad loc., cf. Köii. 151 (pointing כִּיּוּן intended to suggest √ כון as something established, firm); kaimâ̆nu = kaiânu, according to Jen Cosm. iii. 502 who der. from כון (cf. Thes; so Zim BP 17); \> Hpt ZA ii. 266, 281 f. reads כַּיָּוָן (for כְּאָמָן), reading the Babyl. name Kaʾâmânu; v. also M-AJBL 1892, xi. 86 n. 39.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Kiyyun (1).

## In the verses

[Amos 5:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.5.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.5.26/#tree)

וּנְשָׂאתֶ֗ם אֵ֚ת סִכּ֣וּת מַלְכְּכֶ֔ם וְאֵ֖ת כִּיּ֣וּן צַלְמֵיכֶ֑ם כּוֹכַב֙ אֱלֹ֣הֵיכֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר עֲשִׂיתֶ֖ם לָכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.lift.up (et) Sikkuth king your and (et) Kiyyun images your the.star your.gods your which you.made for yourselves

*JPS 1917:* So shall ye take up Siccuth your king and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3594.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3594/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).