דִּבְיוֹן
divyon · dove's dung
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1686 · appears 1 time in the Bible
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divyon (דִּבְיוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dove'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.
How to say it
div·yon
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Where it appears
- 2 Kings 6:25
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.