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title: כִּיּוּן — Chiun · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כִּיּוּן (3594), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Chiun. BDB 1906: n.pr.dei. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כִּיּוּן

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«כִּיּוּן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Chiun** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3594 · **BDB:** כִּיּוּן

### Glosses

Kiyyun (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כִּיּוּן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3594/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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