Dung
דֹּ֫מֶןStrong’s H1828domen (do-men)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Domen is the Hebrew word usually translated “dung” and “like dung”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.”
Meaning
- Dung (always of corpses) (fig.)
How it's translated
- dung 4
- like dung 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 4
- 2 Kings 1
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 83:10Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
- Jeremiah 8:2And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
- Jeremiah 9:22Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
- Jeremiah 16:4They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
- Jeremiah 25:33And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.
Hebrew dictionary
דֹּ֫מֶן domen · dung
dung (always of corpses) (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dung” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DUNG, noun
[G.]
The excrement of animals.
All definitions and other forms of “dung”
DUNG, verb transitive
To manure with dung
DUNG, verb intransitive
To void excrement.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.