Dibyôwn — H1686

Definition

masculine noun

probably some cheap vegetable, perhaps a bulbous root

1. doves dung

Usually translated as

dove's dung

Origin

in the margin for the textual reading, cheryôwn; both, (in the plural only and) of uncertain derivation,

Occurrences

Dibyôwn occurs 1 time in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 2 Kings (1)

• 2 Kings 6:25 — And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove’s dung (דִּבְיוֹנִ֖ים) for five pieces of silver.