Strong's #2769: keration (pronounced ker-at'-ee-on)

neuter of a presumed derivative of 2768; something horned, i.e. (specially) the pod of the carob-tree:--husk.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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keration

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.

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: from a presumed derivative of G2768

Usage:

This word is used 1 times:

 

Luke 15:16: "belly with the husks that the swine did eat:"