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Dove's Dung

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Credit: Iorsh

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Comments: Ornithogalum narbonense - image taken on 12 April 2004, on the slopes of Mount Carmel, Israel.

 

Credit: Adrian198cm

License: Public Domain

Credit URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org...

Comments: Ornithogalum narbonense (Hyacinthaceae, Asparagales). Madrid, EspaƱa.

 

Dove's Dung. Ornithogalum narbonense. דביוניםdiḇyōnîm - Strongs: H1686.

From Easton: Dove's dung - (2 Kings 6:25) has been generally understood literally. There are instances in history of the dung of pigeons being actually used as food during a famine. Compare also the language of Rabshakeh to the Jews (2 Kings 18:27; Isaiah 36:12). This name, however, is applied by the Arabs to different vegetable substances, and there is room for the opinion of those who think that some such substance is here referred to, as, e.g., the seeds of a kind of millet, or a very inferior kind of pulse, or the root of the ornithogalum, i.e., bird-milk, the star-of-Bethlehem.

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  • 2 Kings 6:25
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Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​apo/​d/doves-dung.html. 2024.
 
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