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2 Kings 6:25 (100.00%)

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 (8802) 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 (8675) H3123 H2755 for five H2568 [pieces] of silver H3701.

and there is a great famine in Samaria, and lo, they are laying siege to it, till the head of an ass is at eighty silverlings, and a forth of the cab of dovesdung at five silverlings.

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