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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - κεράτιον
κεράτιον
G2769
Transliteration: kerátion
Pronunciation: ker-at'-ee-on
Definition: husk
- Original: κεράτιον - Transliteration: Keration - Phonetic: ker-at'-ee-on
- Definition:
1. a little horn
2. the name of the fruit, Ceratonia silqua or carobtree (called also John's Bread [from the notion that its pods, which resemble those of the "locust", constituted the food of the Baptist]. This fruit was shaped like a horn and has a sweet taste; it was and is used not only for fattening swine, but as an article of food by the lower classes.
- Origin: from a presumed derivative of G2768" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2768 - TDNT entry: None - Part(s) of speech: Noun Neuter - Strong's: Neuter of a presumed derivative of G2768" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2768; something horned that is (specifically) the pod of the carob tree: - husk.