2 Kings 25:3
ninth ...... month <08672 02320> [A.M. 3416. B.C. 588. the ninth day.]
famine <07458> [the famine.]
food <03899> [there was no.]
2 Kings 4:38
Elisha <0477> [Elisha.]
famine <07458> [a dearth.]
<01121> [the sons.]
visiting <03427> [were sitting.]
Put ... big pot on <08239 01419 05518> [Set on the great pot.]
2 Kings 6:25
food supply ran out <07458 01419> [a great famine.]
donkey's head <07218 02543> [an ass's head.]
If the pieces of silver were {drachms,} the whole would amount to about 2Å“. 9s.; which was a great price for so mean a part of this unclean animal.
<01686> [dove'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.
2 Kings 7:4
go <0935> [we will enter.]
defect <05307> [let us fall.]
spare .... live <02421> [if they save us.]
die ...... we ..... die ................... kill ........ die <04191> [we shall but die.]
2 Kings 8:1
son <01121> [A.M. 3113. B.C. 891. whose son.]
live somewhere <01481> [sojourn.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
famine <07458 07121> [called for a famine.]
seven years <07651 08141> [seven years.]
