Lexical Definition

‎כִּיּוּן‎ Kîyûwn (kee-yoon') Kiyyun ^N:N-M-T
from ‎כּוּן‎

Chiun.

• § Chiun = "an image" or "pillar"
• properly, a statue, i.e. idol
• but used (by euphemism) forsome heathen deity (perhaps corresponding to Priapus or Baal-peor)

1) probably a statue of the Assyrian-Babylonian god of the planet Saturn and used to symbolise Israelite apostasy

See Greek: Ῥεμφάν

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎כִּיּוּן‎ proper name, of deity Amos 5:26, probably = Assyrian kaivânu, planet Saturn (Arabic and Persian Syriac ), regarded as god; original pronunciation ‎כֵּיוָן‎ Schr^{COT on the passage}, compare Kö^{ii. 151} (pointing ‎כִּיּוּן‎ intended to suggest √ ‎כון‎ as something established, firm); kaimânu = kaiânu, according to Jen^{Cosm. iii. 502} who derives from ‎כון‎ (compare Thes; so Zim^{BP 17}); > Hpt^{ZA ii. 266, 281 f.} reads ‎כַּיָּוָן‎ (for ‎כְּאָמָן‎*), reading the Babylonian name Ka°âmânu; see also M-A^{JBL 1892, xi. 86 n. 39}. ‎כִּיּוֺר‎, see below I. ‎כור‎.

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