Original Word: דִּבְיוֹן
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: dibyown
Pronunciation: dib-yoh-neem'
Phonetic Spelling: (dib-yone')
KJV: dove's dung
NASB: dung
Word Origin: [of uncertain derivation]

1. probably some cheap vegetable, perhaps a bulbous root

dove's dung

In the margin for the textual reading, cheryown {kher-yone'}; both (in the plural only and) of uncertain derivation; probably some cheap vegetable, perhaps a bulbous root -- dove's dung.

Word Origin
of uncertain derivation
Definition
probably dove's dung
NASB Translation
dung (1).

דִּבְיוֺנִים noun [masculine] so Qr; = דב יונים dove's dung (?) 2 Kings 6:25 for Kt חרייונים; ᵐ5 Κόπρου περιστερῶν (Klo gives conjectural emendation)

דבל (Arabic collect, also make into lumps, gobbets (Lane); Ethiopic & cognate in derivatives)

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