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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
Eaten as a last resort, in
time
of
famine
(
2 Kings 6:25
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 for five pieces of silver. (2 Kings 6:25)
).
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
Some take this in
2 Kings 6:25
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 for five pieces of silver. (2 Kings 6:25)
to represent a kind of herb; we have plants similarly named, as cowslip,
hart
’s-tongue, and the Arabs have a herb they call “sparrows’ dung.”