Qiqavon קִיקָיוֹן
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| קִיקָיוֹן | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | qiqavon |
| Strong's number | H7021 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | masculine noun |
| Gloss | plant |
| Occurrences | 5 in 4 verses |
Qiqavon (Hebrew קִיקָיוֹן, Strong's H7021) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “plant”. It occurs 5 times in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
1) a plant
1a) perhaps a gourd, castor-oil plant, bottle-gourd
1a) perhaps a gourd, castor-oil plant, bottle-gourd
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | gourd (5) |
|---|---|
| BSB | plant (4), vine (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Qiqavon, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Jonah
- Jonah 4:6And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.So the LORD God appointed a vine, and it grew up to provide shade over Jonah’s head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was greatly pleased with the plant.
- Jonah 4:7But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.
- Jonah 4:9And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”
- Jonah 4:10Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:But the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).