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# דֹּמֶן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1828

**dung** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

dung [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1828/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דֹּ֫מֶן: n.m. dung [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1828/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. dung (Arabic دِمْنٌ ) always in this form and always of corpses, lying on ground as offal 2 K 9:37 Je 8:2; 9:21; 16:4; 25:33 ψ 83:11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: dung (6).

## In the verses

[Psalms 83:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.11/#tree)

נִשְׁמְד֥וּ בְֽעֵינ־דֹּ֑ארעֵינ־דֹּ֑אר הָ֥יוּ דֹּ֝֗מֶן לָאֲדָמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* they.were.destroyed at Endor they.became dung for the ground

*JPS 1917:* Who were destroyed at En-dor; they became as dung for the earth.

[2 Kings 9:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.9.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.9.37/#tree)

וְֽהָיְתָ֞ה נִבְלַ֣ת אִיזֶ֗בֶל כְּדֹ֛מֶן עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הַשָּׂדֶ֖ה בְּחֵ֣לֶק יִזְרְעֶ֑אל אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־יֹאמְר֖וּ זֹ֥את אִיזָֽבֶל׃פ

*Word for word:* and it.will.be the.corpse of.Jezebel like dung on the.surface of the.field in the.territory of.Jezreel that not people.will.say this \[is\].Jezebel

*JPS 1917:* and the carcass 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.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1828.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1828/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).