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Strong's #3594 - כִּיּוּן
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Chiun = “an image” or “pillar”
1) probably a statue of the Assyrian-Babylonian god of the planet Saturn and used to symbolise Israelite apostasy
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), 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. 266,281f. reads כַּיָּוָן (for כְּאָמָן*), reading the Babylonian name Ka°âmânu; see also M-A JBL 1892, xi. 86n. 39. כִּיּוֺר, see below I. כור.
כִּיּוּן ἅπαξ λεγόμ. Amos 5:26, the name of an idol worshipped by the Israelites in the wilderness, i.q. Arab. كَيْوَانُ i.e. the planet Saturn, regarded by the Phœnicio-Shemitic people as an evil demon, to be appeased by expiatory sacrifices (see Comment. on Isa., vol. ii. P. 353), [“prob. a statue, an image, Thes.”]. To the Hebrew words loc. cit. כִּיּוּן צַלְמֵיכֶם כּוֹבַב אֱלֹחֵיכֶם there answer (some of the members, however, being transposed) the Greek, καὶ τὸ ἄστρον τοῦ θεοῦ ὑμῶν, Ῥαιφὰν τοὺς τύπους αὐτῶν, so that it is clear that the Hebr. כִּיּוּן is expressed in Greek by Ῥαιφάν, Compl. Ῥομφᾶ, (for Rosenmüller does not convince us that this word is inserted as a kind of gloss). Now it appears pretty certain that Ῥαιφὰν was an Egyptian name for Saturn (see Kircheri Ling. Ægypt. restit. p. 49; Jablonskii Opuscc. t. ii. p. 1, sq.; and on the other hand, J.D. Mich. Supplemm. p. 1225, sq.). Others give this word the signification of statue, or image. [This is the opinion of Gesenius himself in Thes.] Vulg. imaginem idolorum vestrorum.
