doves' dung

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

Eaten as a last resort, in time of famine (2 Kings 6:25²⁵And 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. (2 Kings 6:25)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:

Number:

2755 (find all occurrences in KJV Bible)

Transliteration:

charey-yowniym

Phonic:

khar-ay’-yo-neem’

Meaning:

from the plural of 2716 and the plural of 3123; excrements of doves {or perhaps rather the plural of a single word charapyown {khar-aw-yone'}; of similar or uncertain derivation, probably a kind of vegetable

KJV Usage:

doves' dung