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title: קִיקָיוֹן — ricinus · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קִיקָיוֹן (7021), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: ricinus. BDB 1906: n.m. ricinus. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קִיקָיוֹן

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«קִיקָיוֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **ricinus** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 7021 · **BDB:** קִיקָיוֹן

### Glosses

plant (4); a.plant (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קִיקָיוֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7021/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.'

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