BDB4002 [H3594]

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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