Strong's Lexicon

H2755

H2755 — חֲרֵי ־ יוֹנִים חֲרָאיוֹן

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewcharey-yowniymnoun mascOccurrences: 2TWOT: 730a

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H2755
Word:	חֲרֵי ־ יוֹנִים חֲרָאיוֹן
Part of Speech:	noun masc
Etymology:	from the plural of H2716 and the plural of H3123
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	2
Transliteration:	charey-yowniym
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	khar-ay'-yo-neem'
Meaning:	1. excrements of doves {or perhaps rather the plural of a single word charapyown {khar-aw-yone'} 2. of similar or uncertain derivation, probably a kind of vegetable
KJV Renderings:	doves' dung.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB3081

[חֶרֶא, or חֲרִי] noun [masculine] dung (Late Hebrew חרא (י_), id.; Aramaic [untranscribed source text 1940] id.; Mandean חרא (on this and cognate languages in general see Nö^{M 56}); Arabic [untranscribed source text 1941] id., whence verb [untranscribed source text 1942] of act, and noun [untranscribed source text 1943] of place; Amharic [untranscribed source text 1944] (Di^{Lex. Aeth. 88})) — plural suffix חַרְאֵיהֶם Isa 36:12 Kt ( Qr צוֺאָתָם); || 2Kgs 18:27 has חֲרִיהֶם (see singular חרי 2Kgs 6:25 Qr as above); חֲרִי יוֺנִים dove's dung 2Kgs 6:25 Kt ( Qr דִּבִיוֺנִים); see, further, Gei^{Urschrift, 409}.

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

יון (yah-véhn’)

Psalms 40:2

KJV: He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.an…: Heb. a pit of noise

EHCC: (8). out of the miry clay,