Original: κεράτιον

Transliteration: kerátion

Phonetic: ker-at'-ee-on

Short 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

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Neuter

- Strong's: Neuter of a presumed derivative of G2768; something horned that is (specifically) the pod of the carob tree: - husk.