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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.

2 Kings 6:25 A kab was about 2 liters, so a fourth of a kab would be about 500 milliliters or about a pint

And there was a great H1419 famine H7458 in Samaria: H8111 and, behold, they besieged H6696 (QalActPtc) it, until an ass’s H2543 head H7218 was sold for fourscore H8084 pieces of silver, H3701 and the fourth part H7255 of a cab H6894 of dove’s dung H1686 (Qere) H3123 H2755 for five H2568 pieces of silver. H3701

και εγενετο λιμος μεγας εν σαμαρεια και ιδου περιεκαθηντο επ αυτην εως ου εγενηθη κεφαλη ονου πεντηκοντα σικλων αργυριου και τεταρτον του καβου κοπρου περιστερων πεντε σικλων αργυριου

But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you, to speak these words? Hasn’t he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own urine with you?”

But Rab-shakeh H7262 said H559 (QalImpf) unto them, Hath my master H113 sent H7971 (QalPerf) me to thy master, H113 and to thee, to speak H1696 (PielInf) these words? H1697 hath he not sent me to the men H582 which sit H3427 (QalActPtc) on the wall, H2346 that they may eat H398 (QalInf) their own dung, H6675 (Qere) H2755 and drink H8354 (QalInf) their own piss H4325 H7272 (Qere) H7890 with you?^§

2 Kings 18:27 Heb. the water of their feet?

και ειπεν προς αυτους ραψακης μη επι τον κυριον σου και προς σε απεστειλεν με ο κυριος μου λαλησαι τους λογους τουτους ουχι επι τους ανδρας τους καθημενους επι του τειχους του φαγειν την κοπρον αυτων και πιειν το ουρον αυτων μεθ υμων αμα