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Lexicon :: Strong's H2755 - ḥărê yônîm

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חֲרֵי יוֹנִים
Transliteration
ḥărê yônîm
Pronunciation
khar-ay'-yo-neem'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the pl. of חֲרָאִים (H2716) and the pl. of יוֹנָה (H3123)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 730a

Strong’s Definitions

חֲרֵי־יוֹנִים chărêy-yôwnîym, khar-ay'-yo-neem'; from the plural of H2716 and the plural of H3123; or perhaps rather the plural of a single word חֲרָאיוֹן chărâʼyôwn, probably a kind of vegetable excrements of doves:—doves' dung.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's H2755 in the following manner: variant (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's H2755 in the following manner: variant (2x).
  1. dung, doves' dung

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חֲרֵי־יוֹנִים chărêy-yôwnîym, khar-ay'-yo-neem'; from the plural of H2716 and the plural of H3123; or perhaps rather the plural of a single word חֲרָאיוֹן chărâʼyôwn, probably a kind of vegetable excrements of doves:—doves' dung.
STRONGS H2755: Abbreviations
2 Kings 18:27 has חֲרִיהֶם (see singular חרי 2 Kings 6:25; Qr as above); חֲרִי יוֺנִים dove's dung 2 Kings 6:25 Kt (Qr דִּבִיוֺנִים); see, further, GeiUrschrift, 409.

This is a portion of the full BDB entry H2716.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

2 Kings

6:25; 6:25; 18:27

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2755 matches the Hebrew חֲרֵי יוֹנִים (ḥărê yônîm),
which occurs 2 times in 2 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:25 - Now there was a great famine in Samaria. And behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for [fn]eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a [fn]kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:27 - But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”
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