2 Kings 6:25
a great famine.28,29; 7:4; 25:3; 1Ki 18:2; Jer 14:13-15,18; 32:24; 52:6an ass's head.If the pieces of silver were {drachms,} the whole would amount to about 2£. 9s.; which was a great price for so mean a part of this unclean animal. Eze 4:13-16dove's dung.This probably denotes, as Bochart, Scheuchzer, and others suppose, a kind of {pulse,} or {vetches,} which the Arabs still call pigeon's dung. "They never," says Dr. Shaw, (Travels, p. 140), "constitute a dish by themselves, but are strewed singly as a garnish over {cuscasowe, pillowe,} and other dishes. They are besides in the greatest repute after they are parched in pans and ovens; then assuming the name {leblebby;}" and he thinks they were so called from being pointed at one end, and acquiring an ash colour in parching. Revelation of John 6:6
A measure."The word choenix signifieth a measure containing one wine-quart and the twelfth part of a quart." and see.9:4; Ps 76:10
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