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Amos 5:26
Masoretic Text 1524
King James Bible (Oxford 1769)
Hebrew-English Dictionary
properly a {statue} that {is} idol; but used (by euphemism) for some heathen deity (perhaps corresponding to Priapus or Baal-peor)
Chiun = "an image" or "pillar"
1. probably a statue of the Assyrian-Babylonian god of the planet Saturn and used to symbolise Israelite apostasy
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.