- 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.