Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #175183

‘Ketiv’ (marginal note on original)

OSHB 2 Ki 6:25 יונים (yvnym) Strongs=3123
contextual word gloss=‘doves'_dung(s)’ word gloss=‘dove's_dung’
Morphology=Ncfpa PoS=common_noun Gender=feminine Number=plural State=absolute
Year=-893 TimeSeries=Prophecies_of_Elisha

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Only use of identical word form ‘יונים’ (Morphology=Ncfpa PoS=common_noun Gender=feminine Number=plural State=absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘יונים’ (Morphology=Ncfpa PoS=common_noun Gender=feminine Number=plural State=absolute) is always and only glossed as ‘doves'_dung(s)’.

2 KI 6:25 contextual word gloss=‘doves'_dung(s)’ word gloss=‘dove's_dung’ OSHB 2 KI 6:25 word 17

OET-LV: 25 And_he/it _was a _famine great in_Shomrōn and_BEHOLD/LO/SEE they_were_laying _siege on/upon_it(f) until was the_head _of a _donkey for_eighty silver and_the _fourth _part _of the _kab wwww doves’_dung(s) for_five silver. (KI2_6:25)

OET-RV: 25 Being surrounded like that caused a terrible famine inside the city, until a donkey’s head would be sold for eighty silver coins, and a cup of doves’ droppings was sold for five silver coins. (KI2 6:25)