(2 Kings 6:25) has been generally understood literally. There are instances in history of the dung of pigeons being actually used as food during a famine. This unified study connects 3 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
דִּבְיוֹנִים
H1686
Transliteration
dibyôwn
Pronunciation
dib-yone'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
1
Glosses
dove’s dung, dove's dung.
Lexicon definition
probably some cheap vegetable, perhaps a bulbous root
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
דִּבְיוֹנִים
H2755
Transliteration
chărêy-yôwnîym
Pronunciation
khar-ay'-yo-neem'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
0
Glosses
dove’s dung, doves' dung.
Lexicon definition
excrements of doves {or a vegetable}
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
דִּבְיוֹן
H1686
Transliteration
dibyôwn
Pronunciation
dib-yone'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
1
Glosses
dove's dung.
Lexicon definition
probably some cheap vegetable, perhaps a bulbous root
Greek lexical coverage
No safely matched Greek Strong’s entry
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The installed lexicons do not contain a sufficiently exact Greek word-level match for this study. UNLEARN leaves this language unassigned instead of displaying an unrelated Strong’s record.
Complete dictionary entries
Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
Dove's dung
(2 Kings 6:25) has been generally understood literally. There are instances in history of the dung of pigeons being actually used as food during a famine. Compare also the language of Rabshakeh to the Jews (2 Kings 18:27; Isa. 36:12). This name, however, is applied by the Arabs to different vegetable substances, and there is room for the opinion of those who think that some such substance is here referred to, as, e.g., the seeds of a kind of millet, or a very inferior kind of pulse, or the root of the ornithogalum, i.e., bird-milk, the star-of-Bethlehem.