Kikayon
Overview
Bible
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Book of Jonah
Jonah
Jonah is the name given in the Hebrew Bible to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BC, the eponymous central character in the Book of Jonah, famous for being swallowed by a fish or a whale, depending on translation...
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The first use of the term kikayon is in the biblical book of Jonah, Chapter 4:
- And God
GodGod is the English name given to a singular being in theistic and deistic religions who is either the sole deity in monotheism, or a single deity in polytheism....
created a kikayon, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to save him from his evilEvilEvil is the violation of, or intent to violate, some moral code. Evil is usually seen as the dualistic opposite of good. Definitions of evil vary along with analysis of its root motive causes, however general actions commonly considered evil include: conscious and deliberate wrongdoing,...
. And Jonah was exceeding glad because of the kikayon.
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