domen · dung

What it means

domen (דֹּמֶן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dung”.

Animal excrement left lying in the field. In the Bible it is always used as a comparison for corpses no one gathers or buries (2 Kings 9:37; Jeremiah 8:2; Psalm 83:10).

How to say it

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.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Excrement in the field; an image of unburied corpses.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 2 Kings×1
• Psalms×1
• Jeremiah×4

• 2 Kings 9:37

  and the corpse of Jezebel will be like dung on the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel, so that they will not say, “This is Jezebel.”’”

• Psalms 83:10

  who were destroyed at Endor; they became dung for the ground.

• Jeremiah 8:2

  and they will spread them out before the sun and the moon and all the army of the heavens, which they have loved and which they have served and after which they have walked and which they have sought and to which they have bowed down. They will not be gathered or buried; as dung on the face of the ground they will be.

• Jeremiah 9:22

  Speak: “Thus declares YHWH: ‘The corpses of human beings will fall like dung on the face of the field, and like a sheaf behind the reaper, with no one to gather them.’”

• Jeremiah 16:4

  Of deaths from diseases they will die; they will not be mourned or buried; as dung on the face of the ground they will be; and by the sword and by famine they will be finished off; and their corpses will be food for the birds of the heavens and for the animals of the earth.

• Jeremiah 25:33

  And those slain by YHWH will be on that day from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; they will not be lamented, or gathered, or buried; they will be dung on the face of the ground.