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Dove (2)

People's Dictionary of the Bible

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Dove's Dung. In the siege of Samaria by Ben-hadad, a fourth part of a cab of dove's dung was sold for five shekels. 2 Kings 6:25. Bochart supposes chick-peas here meant; but Keil, without deciding the question, produces testimony that excrement has been used for food in famine, and that the literal meaning is not impossible. Dr. Thomson considers dove's dung a coarse kind of bean. The seeds of millet are called "doves' seed" by the Hebrews, which favors the bulb or seed of some plant.

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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Dove (2)'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​rpd/​d/dove-2.html. 1893.
 
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