1) a plant 1a) perhaps a gourd, castor-oil plant, bottle-gourd Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: perhaps from H7006 Same Word by TWOT Number: 2021
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קִיקָיוֺןnoun masculineJonah 4:6a plant (compare Assyrian Kukkânîtum (כ) a garden-plant, DlHWB 327); — usually ricinus (R. communis, Linn. = castor-oil tree; compare Dioscoriv. 164κίκι (Egypt) = κρότων [castor-oil tree]; Talmud שֶׁמֶן קִיק see especially Löwp. 353 f.); perhaps < bottle-gourd (ᵐ5κολόκυνθα; i.e. cucurbita lagenaria, a vine growing and withering rapidly, Post in HastingsDB ii. 250); — Jonah 4:6 (twice in verse); Jonah 4:7,9,10.
Jonah 4:6 HEB:יְהוָֽה־ אֱ֠לֹהִים קִיקָי֞וֹן וַיַּ֣עַל ׀ מֵעַ֣ל NAS: appointed a plant and it grew KJV: prepared a gourd, and made [it] to come up INT: the LORD God A plant grew over
Jonah 4:6 HEB:יוֹנָ֛ה עַל־ הַקִּֽיקָי֖וֹן שִׂמְחָ֥ה גְדוֹלָֽה׃ NAS: happy about the plant. KJV: was exceeding glad of the gourd. INT: and Jonah over the plant glad aloud
Jonah 4:7 HEB:וַתַּ֥ךְ אֶת־ הַקִּֽיקָי֖וֹן וַיִּיבָֽשׁ׃ NAS: and it attacked the plant and it withered. KJV: and it smote the gourd that it withered. INT: the next attacked the plant withered
Jonah 4:9 HEB:לְךָ֖ עַל־ הַקִּֽיקָי֑וֹן וַיֹּ֕אמֶר הֵיטֵ֥ב NAS: about the plant? And he said, KJV: to be angry for the gourd? And he said, INT: to be angry about gourd said reason
Jonah 4:10 HEB:חַ֙סְתָּ֙ עַל־ הַקִּ֣יקָי֔וֹן אֲשֶׁ֛ר לֹא־ NAS: You had compassion on the plant for which KJV: Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, INT: had on the plant which did not