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NASB | 2 Kings 6:25 There was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Kings 6:25 Now there was a great famine in Samaria; and they besieged it until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver. |
Bible Question: 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. |
Bible Answer: 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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