[b-hebrew] What is that to be eaten 2 Kings 6:25?

kgraham0938 at comcast.net kgraham0938 at comcast.net
Sun Sep 7 19:28:54 EDT 2008


And the NET footnotes says that dove's dung was name for husk of seeds.

Based on evidence from Akkadian, M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 79) suggest that "dove's dung" was a popular name for the inedible husks of seeds. 

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Kelton Graham 
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From: Bill Rea <bill.rea at canterbury.ac.nz> 

> Jack wrote:- 
> 
> > The word in question (dibyown) is of course a hapax legomenon which does not 
> > seem to be derived from any obvious Hebrew roots. The "doves dung" is the 
> > ketib. The LXX translates this as dove's dung (kabou koprou peristerwn). 
> > However even if we take the ketib and LXX at face value, that does not mean 
> > people were actually eating doves dung. In Mexico and the US Southwest there 
> > is a popular confection called "churros", a long narrow lump of fried dough 
> > sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon. It is possible to translate "churros" as 
> > dung although there are more graphic and accurate words available in English 
> > language. The name is merely reflective of the general appearance of the 
> > food, particularly when it made by hand, and perhaps the fact it an 
> > inexpensive food popular with the poorer strata of society. Perhaps "doves 
> > dung" is something similar. 
> 
> A number of English translations have a footnote to say these were a type of 
> seed pod. How reliable that is I have no idea but it seems a reasonable 
> suggestion. 
> 
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