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 6:31
May God <0430 06213> [God do so.]
head <07218> [if the head.]
2 Kings 19:21
virgin <01330> [The virgin.]
daughter .......... Daughter <01323> [the daughter.]
shakes ... head <07218 05128> [shaken her head.]
2 Kings 1:9
sent ... captain <07971 08269> [sent unto.]
sitting <03427> [he sat.]
Prophet <0376> [Thou man.]
2 Kings 25:27
thirty-seventh ............. twenty-seventh <07651> [A.M. 3442. B.C. 562. it came to pass.]
King ............. King .... Babylon .......... King <04428 0894> [king of Babylon.]
pardoned <07218 05375> [lift up the head.]
