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22-530: Kikoin (feminine: Kikoina ) is a Russian Jewish family name. Its transliteration into French is Kikoïne . Some, including Konstantin Berkovich, son of Abram Kikoin, suggest that the surname originated from the name of an obscure biblical plant kikayon . Konstantin claims that according to his genealogical research the surname ascends to a Gomel rabbi, who decided to change his mundane surname Schmidt . Notable people with

44-514: A xylophone that has gourds attached to the bottom of each note for resonance . Gourds have maintained a prominent role in the mythology of numerous cultures. In regard to Christianity , several artists such as Frans Floris and Carlo Crivelli have depicted the gourd as a symbol of the Resurrection of Christ, juxtaposed with the Fruit of Good and Evil that was consumed by Adam and Eve. In

66-489: A multitude of uses including food storage , cooking tools, toys, musical instruments and decoration. Today, gourds are commonly used for a wide variety of crafts, including jewelry, furniture, dishes, utensils and a wide variety of decorations using carving, burning and other techniques such as lamps and containers for storing objects. Just one example of a musical instrument is the West African Balafon ,

88-619: Is also sometimes referred to as a gourd. L. siceraria or bottle gourd, are native to the Americas, being found in Peruvian archaeological sites dating from 13,000 to 11,000 BC and Thailand sites from 11,000 to 6,000 BC. A study of bottle gourd DNA published in 2005 suggests that there are two distinct subspecies of bottle gourds, domesticated independently in Africa and Asia, the latter approximately 4,000 years earlier. The gourds found in

110-648: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Kikayon The first use of the term kikayon is in the biblical book of Jonah , Chapter 4. In the quote below, from the Jewish Publication Society translation of 1917, the English word 'gourd' occurs where the Hebrew has kikayon. 6 And the L ORD God prepared a gourd , and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his evil. So Jonah

132-410: Is only referenced in the book of Jonah and there is some question as to what kind of plant it is. Some hypotheses include a gourd and a castor oil plant ( Ricinus communis ). The current Hebrew usage of the word refers to the castor oil plant . A well-known argument between Jerome and Augustine concerned whether to translate kikayon as "gourd" or "ivy", although Jerome indicates that in fact

154-813: The Old Testament of the Christian bible, a gourd tree was used to shield Jonah from intense weather conditions while he was surveying Nineveh. This terminology is contested by the New King James Version which calls which simply uses the term plant. In Catholicism , the calabash and rod that pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago adorn have become synonymous with the image of Raphael (archangel) . The gourd also makes frequent appearances in Chinese mythology. The Chinese god of longevity Shouxing

176-434: The bottle gourd , Lagenaria siceraria , have been discovered in archaeological sites dating from as early as 13,000 BC. Gourds have had numerous uses throughout history, including as tools, musical instruments, objects of art, film, and food. Gourd is occasionally used to describe crop plants in the family Cucurbitaceae, like pumpkins , cucumbers , squash , luffa , and melons . More specifically, gourd refers to

198-470: The fruits of plants in the two Cucurbitaceae genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita , or also to their hollow, dried-out shell. There are many different gourds worldwide. The main plants referred to as gourds include several species from the genus Cucurbita (mostly native to North America, including the Malabar gourd and turban squash ), Crescentia cujete (the tree gourd or calabash tree, native to

220-440: The surname Kikoin . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kikoin&oldid=1255173539 " Categories : Surnames Russian-Jewish surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

242-536: The American tropics) and Lagenaria siceraria (bottle gourd, thought to be originally from Africa but present worldwide). Other plants with gourd in their name include the luffa gourd (likely domesticated in Asia), which includes several species from the genus Luffa , as well as the wax gourd , snake gourd , teasel gourd , hedgehog gourd , buffalo gourd /coyote gourd. The bitter melon /balsam apple/balsam pear

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264-527: The Americas appear to have come from the Asian subspecies very early in history, although a new study now indicates Africa. The archaeological and DNA records show it is likely that the gourd was among the first domesticated species, in Asia between 12,000 and 13,000 years before present , and possibly the first domesticated plant species. Wild, poisonous gourds ( Citrullus colocynthis ) were unknowingly added to

286-569: The company of prophets' stew according to a story of Elisha in the Hebrew Bible . Elisha added flour to the stew in order to purify it. This interpretation of the verse is disputed by Rashi's interpretation, who translates it as poisonous mushrooms, not poisonous gourds. Gourds continued to be used throughout history in almost every culture throughout the world. European contact in North America found extensive gourd use, including

308-418: The fruits of some flowering plant species in the family Cucurbitaceae , particularly Cucurbita and Lagenaria . The term refers to a number of species and subspecies, many with hard shells, and some without. Many gourds have large, bulbous bodies and long necks, such as Dipper Gourds, many variations of Bottle Gourd and caveman club gourds. One of the earliest domesticated types of plants, subspecies of

330-463: The gourd?' And he said: 'I am greatly angry, even unto death.' 10 And the L ORD said: 'Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow, which came up in a night, and perished in a night; 11 and should not I have pity on Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?' --Jonah 4:6–11 The word kikayon

352-676: The namesake of Gina X Performance See also [ edit ] Mordechai Kikayon References [ edit ] ^ "Some Issues in Ashkenazic Name Searches" ^ Konstantin Kikoin, МЛАДШИЙ БРАТ ("Younger Brother"), Notices in Jewish History , no. 24, 2003, biographical notes about Abram Kikoin ^ Анна МИСЮК, Университант и лирофизик , Migdal Times , no. 122, 2013 [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

374-550: The plant is neither: I have already given a sufficient answer to this in my commentary on Jonah. At present, I deem it enough to say that in that passage, where the Septuagint has gourd, and Aquila and the others have rendered the word ivy (κίσσος), the Hebrew manuscript has ciceion, which is in the Syriac tongue, as now spoken, ciceia. It is a kind of shrub having large leaves like a vine, and when planted it quickly springs up to

396-433: The size of a small tree, standing upright by its own stem, without requiring any support of canes or poles, as both gourds and ivy do. If, therefore, in translating word for word, I had put the word ciceia, no one would know what it meant; if I had used the word gourd, I would have said what is not found in the Hebrew. I therefore put down ivy, that I might not differ from all other translators. Gourd Gourds include

418-587: The surname include: Abram Kikoin  [ ru ] (1914–1999), Lithuanian Jewish and Soviet physicist Elsa Kikoïne  [ fr ] (born 1977), French actress Gérard Kikoïne  [ fr ] (born 1946), French film director and producer Isaak Kikoin (1908–1984), Lithuanian Jewish and Soviet physicist Jakob Kikoïne, birth name of Jacques Yankel (1920–2020), French painter, sculptor, and lithographer Michel Kikoine (1892–1968), Lithuanian-Jewish French painter Gina Kikoine, also credited as Gina X, German singer and lyricist,

440-453: The unpleasant taste while retaining the nutritional and medicinal values of the plants. These include Teasle gourd ( Momordica dioica ) , Spine gourd ( Momordica subangulata ), Sweet gourd ( Momordica cochinchinensis ), balsam apple ( Momordica balsamina ) and Momordica sahyadrica . Cultures from arid regions often associate gourds with water , and they appear in many creation myths . Since before human written history, they have had

462-593: The use of bottle gourds as birdhouses to attract purple martins , which provided bug control for agriculture. Almost every culture had musical instruments made of gourds, including drums, stringed instruments common to Africa and wind instruments, including the nose flutes of the Pacific. Scientists in India have been working on crossbreeding six members of the Momordica (bitter gourd) genus found in India to reduce

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484-436: Was exceeding glad because of the gourd. 7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered. 8 And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said: 'It is better for me to die than to live.' 9 And God said to Jonah: 'Art thou greatly angry for

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