Kikayon
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Kikayon (קיקיון)he:קיקיון is the Hebrew name of a plant mentioned in the Biblical Book of Jonah.
[edit] Origins
The first use of the term 'kikayon' is in the biblical book of Jonah, Chapter 4:
And God 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 evil. And Jonah was exceeding glad because of the kikayon. But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it ate the kikayon, that it withered.
And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a strong east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, he became faint, and requested that he might die, and said: 'It is better for me to die than to live.'
And God said to Jonah: You are angry for the kikayon?' And he said: 'I am greatly angry, even unto death.'
And God said: 'You had pity on the kikayon, which you did not labor over, did not make it grow, which came up in a night, and perished in a night; and should not I have pity on Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?'
The word 'kikayon' is only referenced in the book of Jonah and there is some question as to what kind of plant it is. Some say it is a gourd and others the castor oil plant.
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