keration <2769>
keration keration
| Pronunciation: | ker-at'-ee-on |
| Origin: | from a presumed derivative of 2768 |
| Reference: | - |
| PrtSpch: | n n |
| In Greek: | keratiwn 1 |
| In NET: | carob pods 1 |
| In AV: | husk 1 |
| Count: | 1 |
| 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. neuter of a presumed derivative of 2768; something horned, i.e. (specially) the pod of the carob-tree:-husk. see GREEK for 2768 |
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