דִּבְיוֹן

divyon · dove's dung

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1686 · appears 1 time in the Bible

What is the Strong number?Strong’s number identifies this word: use it to find the same word in other study tools.

What it means

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.