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# קִיקָיוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7021

**ricinus** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

ricinus [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7021/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קִיקָיוֹן: n.m. ricinus [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7021/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jon 4:6 a plant (cf. Assyrian kukkânîtum (כ) a garden-plant, DlHWB 327);—usually ricinus (R. communis, Linn. = castor-oil tree; cf. Dioscoriv. 164 κίκι (Egyptian) = κρότων \[castor-oil tree\]; Talm. שֶׁמֶן קִיק; v. especially Löwp. 353 f.); perhaps bottle-gourd (𝔊 κολόκυνθα; i.e. cucurbita lagenaria, a vine growing and withering rapidly, Post in HastingsDB ii, 250);—Jon 4:6(×2), 7, 9, 10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: plant (4); a plant (1).

## In the verses

[Jonah 4:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.4.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.4.7/#tree)

וַיְמַ֤ן הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ תּוֹלַ֔עַת בַּעֲל֥וֹת הַשַּׁ֖חַר לַֽמָּחֳרָ֑ת וַתַּ֥ךְ אֶת־הַקִּֽיקָי֖וֹן וַיִּיבָֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and he.appointed (the) God a.worm when came.up the dawn to the.next day and it.attacked (et) the plant and it.withered

*JPS 1917:* But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.

[Jonah 4:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.4.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.4.9/#tree)

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶל־יוֹנָ֔ה הַהֵיטֵ֥ב חָרָֽה־לְךָ֖ עַל־הַקִּֽיקָי֑וֹן וַיֹּ֕אמֶר הֵיטֵ֥ב חָֽרָה־לִ֖י עַד־מָֽוֶת׃

*Word for word:* and he.said God to Jonah rightly (do.well)? does.it.burn to you on the plant and he.said rightly.(do.well) it.burns to me to death

*JPS 1917:* And God said to Jonah: 'Art thou greatly angry for the gourd?' And he said: 'I am greatly angry, even unto death.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7021.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7021/): 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).