Plant
קִיקָיוֹןStrong’s H7021qiqavon (qi-qa-von)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qiqavon is the Hebrew word usually translated “plant”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.”
Meaning
- A plantperhaps a gourd, castor-oil plant, bottle-gourd
How it's translated
- the plant 4
- a plant 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jonah 4
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Jonah 4:7But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
- Jonah 4:9And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
- Jonah 4:10Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
Hebrew dictionary
קִיקָיוֹן qiqavon · plant
1) a plant 1a) perhaps a gourd, castor-oil plant, bottle-gourd
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “plant” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PLANT, noun
[Latin planta; splendeo, splendor.]
- A vegetable; an organic body, destitute of sense and spontaneous motion, adhering to another body in such a manner as to draw from it its nourishment, and having the power of propagating itself by seeds; 'whose seed is in itself.' This definition may not be perfectly correct, as it respects all plants, for some marine plants grow without being attached to any fixed body.
- A sapling.
- In Scripture, a child; a descendant; the inhabitant of a country. Psalms 144:12Jeremiah 48:32
- The sole of the foot. [Little used.]
All definitions and other forms of “plant”
PLANT, verb transitive
To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maiz.
- To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree or a vegetable with roots.
- To engender; to set the germ of any thing that may increase.
- To set; to fix.
- To settle; to fix the first inhabitants; to establish; as, to plant a colony.
- To furnish with plants; to lay out and prepare with plants; as, to plant a garden or an orchard.
- To set and direct or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort.
- To introduce and establish; as, to plant christianity among the heathen.“I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase” 1 Corinthians 3:6
- To unite to Christ and fix in a state of fellowship with him. Psalms 92:13
PLANT, verb intransitive
To perform the act of planting.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.