* a great famine.
28,29 7:4 25:3 1Ki 18:2 Jer 14:13-15,18 32:24 52:6
* an ass's head.
If the pieces of silver were {drachms,} the whole would amount
to about 2(9c2e) 9s.; which was a great price for so mean a part
of this unclean animal.
Eze 4:13-16
* dove's dung.
This probably denotes, as Bochart, Scheuchzer, and others
suppose, a kind of {pulse,} or {vetches,} which the Arabs
still call pigeon's dung. "They never," says Dr. Shaw,
(Travels, p. 140), "constitute a dish by themselves, but are
strewed singly as a garnish over {cuscasowe, pillowe,} and
other dishes. They are besides in the greatest repute after
they are parched in pans and ovens; then assuming the name
{leblebby;}" and he thinks they were so called from being
pointed at one end, and acquiring an ash colour in parching.
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