Lexical Definition

‎קִיקָיוֹן‎ qîyqâyôwn (kee-kaw-yone') plant ^H:N-M
perhaps from ‎קָיָה‎

gourd.

• the gourd (as nauseous)

1) a plant
1a) perhaps a gourd, castor-oil plant, bottle-gourd

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎קִיקָיוֺן‎ noun masculine^{Jonah 4:6} a plant (compare Assyrian Kukkânîtum (‎כ‎) a garden-plant, Dl^{HWB 327}); — usually ricinus (R. communis, Linn. = castor-oil tree; compare Dioscor^{iv. 164} κίκι (Egypt) = κρότων [castor-oil tree]; Talmud ‎שֶׁמֶן קִיק‎ see especially Löw^{p. 353 f.}); perhaps < bottle-gourd (ᵐ5 κολόκυνθα; i.e. cucurbita lagenaria, a vine growing and withering rapidly, Post in Hastings^{DB ii. 250}); — Jonah 4:6 (twice in verse); Jonah 4:7; Jonah 4:9; Jonah 4:10. ‎קִיקָלוֺן‎ see ‎קלל‎.

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