King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H1686
Transliteration: dibyonim
Phonetic Spelling: (dib-yone')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: probably dove's dung
Meaning: vegetable, a bulbous root
Word Summary
dibyonim: probably dove's dung
Original Word: דִּבְיוֹןTransliteration: dibyonim
Phonetic Spelling: (dib-yone')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: probably dove's dung
Meaning: vegetable, a bulbous root
Strong's Concordance
dove's dung In the margin for the textual reading, cheryown {kher-yone'}; both (in the plural only and) of uncertain derivation; probably some cheap vegetable, perhaps a bulbous root -- dove's dung.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H1686. dibyonim
דִּבְיוֺנִים noun [masculine] so Qr; = יונים דב dove's dung (?) 2 Kings 6:25 for Kt חרייונים; ᵐ5 Κόπρου περιστερῶν (Klo gives conjectural emendation)
דבל (Arabic collect, also make into lumps, gobbets (Lane); Ethiopic & cognate in derivatives)