King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H3594
Transliteration: Kiyyun
Phonetic Spelling: (kee-yoon')
Part of Speech: Proper Name
Short Definition: a heathen god
Meaning: a statue, idol, for, some heathen deity
Word Summary
Kiyyun: a heathen god
Original Word: כִּיּוּןTransliteration: Kiyyun
Phonetic Spelling: (kee-yoon')
Part of Speech: Proper Name
Short Definition: a heathen god
Meaning: a statue, idol, for, some heathen deity
Strong's 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
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H3594. Kiyyun
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.