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1 | dove's dung or vegetable | 2 Kin 6:25 | johndebpesce | 201938 | ||
I believe this was actually dove's dung, but here it indicates a wild vegetable. Which is it and where can I go to find out what type of vegetable it was and if it is still available in this day and age. | ||||||
2 | dove's dung or vegetable | 2 Kin 6:25 | azurelaw | 201943 | ||
Dear john, As recorded in the AMP version, it should be a kind of wild vegetable. My below search has provided some more information I hope would be helpful to you. "Dung - This Hebrew word is of a doubtful signification, and no where else used, probably it means a sort of pease, which in the Arabick language (near a - kin to the Hebrew) is called doves dung: for this was a food much in use amongst the poorer Israelites, and was a very coarse food, and therefore fit to be joined with the asses head: and a kab was the usual measure of all sorts of grains and fruits of that sort." - Wesley "dove's dung This probably denotes, as Bochart, Scheuchzer, and others suppose, a kind of pulse, or vetches, which the Arabs still call pigeon's dung. 'They never,' says Dr. Sahw, 'constitute a dish by themselves, but are strewed singly as a garnish over cuscasowe, pillowe, and other dishes. They are besides in the greatest repute after they are parched in pans and ovens; then assuming the name leb-lebby;' and he thinks they were so called from being pointed at one end, and acquiring an ash colour in parching." Source: http://bible.cc/2(underscore)kings/6-25.htm |
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