2 Kings 6:25
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Ass's Besieged City Donkey's Dung Eighty Famine Five Fourscore Fourth Great Head Lasted Part Pieces Samaria Sama'ria Shekels Siege Silver Sold
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Ass's Besieged City Donkey's Dung Eighty Famine Five Fourscore Fourth Great Head Lasted Part Pieces Samaria Sama'ria Shekels Siege Silver Sold
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English Standard Version
And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.

New American Standard Bible
There was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So there was a great famine in Samaria, and they continued the siege against it until a donkey's head sold for 80 silver shekels, and a cup of dove's dung sold for five silver shekels.

International Standard Version
until there was a great famine throughout Samaria. The siege lasted until a donkey's head cost 80 silver coins and one quarter of a unit of dove's dung cost five silver coins.

NET Bible
Samaria's food supply ran out. They laid siege to it so long that a donkey's head was selling for eighty shekels of silver and a quarter of a kab of dove's droppings for five shekels of silver.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The shortages caused by the blockade of Samaria became so severe that a donkey's head sold for two pounds of silver and a half-pint of dove manure for two ounces of silver.

King James 2000 Bible
And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
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 kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there was a great famine in Samaria: and so long did the siege continue, till the head of an ass was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cabe of pigeon's dung, for five pieces of silver.

Darby Bible Translation
And there was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was worth eighty silver-pieces, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung five silver-pieces.

English Revised Version
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 kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

Webster's Bible Translation
And there was a great famine in Samaria: and behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

World English Bible
There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

Young's Literal Translation
and there is a great famine in Samaria, and lo, they are laying siege to it, till the head of an ass is at eighty silverlings, and a forth of the cab of dovesdung at five silverlings.
Lexicon
And there was a great
gadowl  (gaw-dole')
great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent
famine
ra`ab  (raw-awb')
hunger (more or less extensive) -- dearth, famine, + famished, hunger.
in Samaria
Shomrown  (sho-mer-one')
watch-station; Shomeron, a place in Palestine -- Samaria.
and behold they besieged
tsuwr  (tsoor)
to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile)
it until an ass's
chamowr  (kham-ore')
a male ass (from its dun red) -- (he)ass.
head
ro'sh  (roshe)
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
was sold for fourscore
shmoniym  (shem-o-neem')
eighty, also eightieth -- eighty(-ieth), fourscore.
pieces of silver
keceph  (keh'-sef)
silver (from its pale color); by implication, money -- money, price, silver(-ling).
and the fourth part
roba`  (ro'-bah)
a quarter -- fourth participle
of a cab
qab  (kab)
a hollow, i.e. vessel used as a (dry) measure -- cab.
of dove's dung
dibyown  (dib-yone')
both (in the plural only and) of uncertain derivation; probably some cheap vegetable, perhaps a bulbous root -- dove's dung.
yownah  (yo-naw')
a dove (apparently from the warmth of their mating) -- dove, pigeon.
charey-yowniym  (khar-ay'-yo-neem')
excrements of doves {or perhaps rather the plural of a single word charapyown {khar-aw-yone'}; of similar or uncertain derivation, probably a kind of vegetable -- doves' dung.
for five
chamesh  (khaw-maysh')
five -- fif(-teen), fifth, five (apiece).
pieces of silver
keceph  (keh'-sef)
silver (from its pale color); by implication, money -- money, price, silver(-ling).
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