Study it in the app“There was a great famine in Samaria, and there they were, besieging it, until a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.”
There wasוַיְהִיa greatגָּדוֹלfamineרָעָבin Samaria,בְּשֹׁמְרוֹןand there they were,וְהִנֵּהbesiegingצָרִיםit,עָלֶיהָuntilעַדa donkey’sחֲמוֹרheadרֹאשׁsoldהֱיוֹתfor eightyבִּשְׁמֹנִיםshekels of silver,כֶּסֶףand a quarterוְרֹבַעof a kabהַקַּבof dove’s dungדִּבְיוֹנִיםfor five shekelsבַּחֲמִשָּׁהof silver.כָסֶף
exist
To exist: "let there be light".
Where else “yehi” appearsgreat
Of great size, amount or importance: a river, a city, a king.
Where else “gadol” appearsfamine, hunger
Hunger; famine, a shortage of food in a region.
Where else “raav” appearsSamaria
See it on the mapWhere else “shomron” appearsbesiege
To encircle a city, or shut something in.
Where else “tsarim” appearsdonkey
Donkey, male donkey.
Where else “chamor” appearshead
The upper part of the body, where the face and hair are.
Where else “rosh” appearseighty
Eighty.
Where else “shemonim” appearssilver
A white, valuable metal, the one most used after gold.
Where else “kesef” appearsfourth part
Fourth part.
Where else “rova” appearskab
Kab. A small measure of capacity for dry things. It appears only once (2 Kings 6:25): "a quarter of a kab."
Where else “kav” appearsdove's dung
A word that appears only once in the Bible (2 Kings 6:25), in the expression read as "dove's dung." During the siege of Samaria it was sold very dear. The lexicon says it was perhaps the name of a cheap vegetable.
Where else “divyonim” appearsfive
Five.
Where else “chamisha” appearsThe donkey was an unclean animal (Leviticus 11:26), and its head has almost no meat. The kab was a small measure of capacity. “Dove’s dung”: so the Hebrew says; it is not known for certain whether it means just that or is the popular name of some very poor food.
Samaria
Today: northern West Bank (Sebastia, Samaria hills)
A city and region in central Israel, between Judea and Galilee.
Omri founded the city as capital of the northern kingdom (1 Kgs 16:24); the Assyrians conquered it (2 Kgs 17:6). Jesus passed through the region, and Philip preached there (John 4:4; Acts 8:5).
24And it happened after this that Ben-hadad, king of Aram, gathered all his army and went up and besieged Samaria.
25 · This verse (above)
26And it happened, as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, that a woman cried out to him, saying, “Save me, my lord the king!”
