3594. Kiyyun
Strong's Concordance
Kiyyun: a heathen god
Original Word: כִּיּוּן
Part of Speech: Proper Name
Transliteration: Kiyyun
Phonetic Spelling: (kee-yoon')
Short Definition: Kiyyun
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 SchrCOT on the passage, compare Köii. 151 (pointing כִּיּוּן intended to suggest √ כון as something established, firm); kaimânu = kaiânu, according to JenCosm. iii. 502 who derives from כון (compare Thes; so ZimBP 17); > HptZA ii. 266, 281 f. reads כַּיָּוָן (for כְּאָמָן*), reading the Babylonian name Ka°âmânu; see also M-AJBL 1892, xi. 86 n. 39.

כִּיּוֺר, see below I. כור.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
Chiun

From kuwn; properly, a statue, i.e. Idol; but used (by euphemism) for some heathen deity (perhaps corresponding to Priapus or Baal-peor) -- Chiun.

see HEBREW kuwn

Forms and Transliterations
כִּיּ֣וּן כיון kî·yūn kiYun kîyūn
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Strong's Hebrew 3594
1 Occurrence


kî·yūn — 1 Occ.

Amos 5:26
HEB: מַלְכְּכֶ֔ם וְאֵ֖ת כִּיּ֣וּן צַלְמֵיכֶ֑ם כּוֹכַב֙
NAS: your king and Kiyyun, your images,
KJV: of your Moloch and Chiun your images,
INT: Sikkuth Molech and Kiyyun your images the star

1 Occurrence

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