קִיקָיוֹןqîyqâyôwn
the gourd (as nauseous)
Pronunciation: kee-kaw-yone' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7021
Meanings
a plant, usually ricinus (Jonah 4:6; Jonah 4:7; Jonah 4:9; Jonah 4:10)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- Jonah 4:6 And the Lord God arranged for a leafy plant to grow there, and soon it spread its broad leaves over Jonah’s head, shading him from the sun. This eased his discomfort, and Jonah was very grateful for the plant.
- Jonah 4:7 But God also arranged for a worm! The next morning at dawn the worm ate through the stem of the plant so that it withered away.
- Jonah 4:9 Then God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry because the plant died?” “Yes,” Jonah retorted, “even angry enough to die!”
- Jonah 4:10 Then the Lord said, “You feel sorry about the plant, though you did nothing to put it there. It came quickly and died quickly.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).