2 Kings 6:25
King James Version
8 Jun 2026
“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.”
כֶּסֶף
Silver, money. Keseph. Come buy without money and without price. The most valuable things God offers cannot be purchased. They are received by faith.
גָּדוֹל
great
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גָּדוֹל
Great, large, elder. Gadol. God is gadol and greatly to be praised. His greatness is beyond all measure and beyond all comparison.
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עַל
on/ it
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עַל
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
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רֹאשׁ
the head of
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רֹאשׁ
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
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עַד
until
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עַד
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
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צוּר
they were laying siege
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צוּר
to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile)
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דִּבְיוֹן
quanos
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דִּבְיוֹן
probably some cheap vegetable, perhaps a bulbous root
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רָעָב
a famine
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רָעָב
hunger (more or less extensive)
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חֲמוֹר
a donkey
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חֲמוֹר
a male ass (from its dun red)
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