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 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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