2 Kings 6:25
There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.This verse in the real world
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- דִּבְיוֹןdibyôwnprobably some cheap vegetable, perhaps a bulbous root
- קַבqaba hollow, i.e. vessel used as a (dry) measure
- חֲרֵי־יוֹנִיםchărêy-yôwnîymexcrements of doves {or a vegetable}
- רֹבַעrôbaʻa quarter
- יוֹנָהyôwnâha dove (apparently from the warmth of their mating)
- צוּרtsûwrto cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hos
- שְׁמֹנִיםshᵉmônîymeighty, also eightieth
- רָעָבrâʻâbhunger (more or less extensive)
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The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.
Cross-references
Jer 14:18, 2Ki 6:28–29, Jer 14:13–15, Jer 52:6, Jer 32:24, Ezk 4:13–16, 2Ki 7:4, 2Ki 25:3