כִּיּוּן n.pr.dei Am 5:26, prob. = As. kaivânu, planet Saturn (Ar. and Pers. Arabic, Syr. Syriac), regarded as god; orig. pronunc. כֵּיוָן Schr COT ad loc., cf. Kö ii. 151 (pointing כִּיּוּן intended to suggest √ כון as something established, firm); kaimânu = kaiânu, acc. to Jen Cosm. iii. 502 who der. fr. כון (cf. Thes; so Zim BP 17); > Hpt ZA ii. 266, 281 f. rds. כַּיָּוָן (for כְּאָמָן *), reading Babyl. name Kaʼâmânu; v. also M-A JBL 1892, xi. 86 n. 39.
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