Verse 25

And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and a quarter of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Det ble stor hungersnød i Samaria, og byen var beleiret så lenge at et eselhode ble solgt for åtti sjekel sølv og en kvart kab duenøkkel for fem sjekel sølv.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Det var en stor hungersnød i Samaria. Se, de beleiret den, til et eselhodet ble solgt for åtti sekler sølv, og en fjerdedel av en kav dueavfall for fem sekler sølv.

• Norsk King James

  Og det var en stor hungersnød i Samaria; og, se, de beleiret byen, til et eslehode ble solgt for åtti sølvstykker, og en fjerdedel av en kab med duehekker for fem sølvstykker.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Det var stor hungersnød i Samaria fordi de beleiret byen, så et eselhode kostet åtti sekel sølv, og en fjerdedel av en kab duegjødsel kostet fem sekel sølv.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Det ble stor hungersnød i Samaria, og beleiringen varte helt til et eselhodet ble solgt for åtti sølv, og en kvart kav dueavføring for fem sølv.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Det ble stor hungersnød i Samaria. Beleiringen var så streng at et eselshode ble solgt for åtti sølvstykker, og en fjerdedel kab due-avføring for fem sølvstykker.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Det ble stor hungersnød i Samaria. Beleiringen var så streng at et eselshode ble solgt for åtti sølvstykker, og en fjerdedel kab due-avføring for fem sølvstykker.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Det ble en stor hungersnød i Samaria mens de beleiret byen, så alvorlig at et eselhode ble solgt for åtti sølvshekler, og en fjerdedel av en kav duegjødsel for fem sølvshekler.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  There was a great famine in Samaria, and it lasted until a donkey's head sold for eighty pieces of silver, and a quarter of a kab of dove's dung went for five pieces of silver.

• biblecontext

  { "verseID": "2Kings.6.25", "source": "וַיְהִ֨י רָעָ֤ב גָּדוֹל֙ בְּשֹׁ֣מְר֔וֹן וְהִנֵּ֖ה צָרִ֣ים עָלֶ֑יהָ עַ֣ד הֱי֤וֹת רֹאשׁ־חֲמוֹר֙ בִּשְׁמֹנִ֣ים כֶּ֔סֶף וְרֹ֛בַע הַקַּ֥ב *חרייונים **דִּבְיוֹנִ֖ים בַּחֲמִשָּׁה־כָֽסֶף׃", "text": "*wə-yəhî* *rāʿāb* *gādôl* *bə-šōmərôn* *wə-hinnēh* *ṣārîm* *ʿālêhā* *ʿad* *hĕyôt* *rōʾš-ḥămôr* *bi-šəmōnîm* *kesep* *wə-rōbaʿ* *ha-qab* *dibyônîm* *ba-ḥămiššāh-kāsep*", "grammar": { "*wə-yəhî*": "conjunction + Qal imperfect 3ms apocopated - and there was", "*rāʿāb*": "noun, masculine singular - famine/hunger", "*gādôl*": "adjective, masculine singular - great/severe", "*bə-šōmərôn*": "preposition + proper noun, feminine singular - in Samaria", "*wə-hinnēh*": "conjunction + demonstrative particle - and behold", "*ṣārîm*": "Qal participle mp - besieging", "*ʿālêhā*": "preposition + 3fs suffix - against it", "*ʿad*": "preposition - until", "*hĕyôt*": "Qal infinitive construct - being", "*rōʾš-ḥămôr*": "noun, masculine singular construct + noun, masculine singular - head of a donkey", "*bi-šəmōnîm*": "preposition + cardinal number - for eighty", "*kesep*": "noun, masculine singular - silver/money", "*wə-rōbaʿ*": "conjunction + noun, masculine singular construct - and a fourth of", "*ha-qab*": "article + noun, masculine singular - the kab (measure)", "*dibyônîm*": "noun, masculine plural - dove's dung", "*ba-ḥămiššāh-kāsep*": "preposition + cardinal number + noun, masculine singular - for five (pieces of) silver" }, "variants": { "*rāʿāb*": "famine/hunger/scarcity of food", "*ṣārîm*": "besieging/encircling/laying siege", "*rōʾš-ḥămôr*": "donkey's head/head of an ass", "*kesep*": "silver/money/shekels", "*qab*": "kab (measure of volume, approximately 1.2 liters)", "*dibyônîm*": "dove's dung/pigeon's dung/possibly a type of plant seed" } }

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Det ble en stor hungersnød i Samaria. Beleiringen var så hard at et eselhode kostet åtti sekler sølv og en kvart kab dueekskrementer kostet fem sekler sølv.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Og der var en stor Hunger i Samaria, thi see, de beleirede den, indtil et Asens Hoved (gjaldt) fiirsindstyve (Sekel) Sølv, og en Fjerdepart af en Kab Duemøg fem (Sekel) Sølv.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And 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.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Det var en stor hungersnød i Samaria, og de beleiret byen så lenge at et eselhode ble solgt for åtti sølvstykker og en fjerdedels kab duegjødsel for fem sølvstykker.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Det ble stor hungersnød i Samaria, og de beleiret det, til et eselhode ble solgt for åtti sølvpenger, og en fjerdedel av en kab duegjødsel for fem sølvpenger.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Det ble en stor hungersnød i Samaria. De beleiret byen så lenge at et eselhode kostet åtti sølvmynter, og en fjerdedel mål duemøkk fem sølvmynter.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Det ble stor hungersnød i Samaria, for de holdt byen innesperret helt til hodet av et esel kostet åtti sekel sølv, og en fjerdedel pint med dueskitt kostet fem sekel sølv.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  & there was a greate derth at Samaria. But they layed sege to the cite so longe, tyll an Asses heade was worth foure score syluer pes, and the fourth parte of a Cab of doues donge worth fyue syluer pens.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  So there was a great famine in Samaria: for loe, they besieged it vntill an asses head was at foure score pieces of siluer, and the fourth part of a kab of doues doung at fiue pieces of siluer.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  But there was a great dearth in Samaria: and beholde, they besieged it, vntill an asses head was sold for fourescore siluer pence, and the fourth part of a cab of doues doung for fiue peeces of siluer.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And 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.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  There was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five [pieces] of silver.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and there is a great famine in Samaria, and lo, they are laying siege to it, till the head of an ass is at eighty silverlings, and a forth of the cab of dovesdung at five silverlings.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And 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 kab of dove's dung for five [ [pieces] of silver.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And they became very short of food in Samaria; for they kept it shut in till the price of an ass's head was eighty shekels of silver, and a small measure of doves' droppings was five shekels of silver.

• World English Bible (2000)

  There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Samaria’s food supply ran out. They laid siege to it so long that a donkey’s head was selling for eighty shekels of silver and a quarter of a kab of dove’s droppings for five shekels of silver.

Referenced Verses

• Lev 26:26 : 26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
• 1 Kgs 18:2 : 2 And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. And there was a severe famine in Samaria.
• 2 Kgs 6:28-29 : 28 And the king said to her, What troubles you? And she answered, This woman said to me, Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow. 29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said to her on the next day, Give your son, that we may eat him: and she has hidden her son.
• 2 Kgs 7:4 : 4 If we say, We will enter the city, there the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us surrender to the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
• 2 Kgs 25:3 : 3 On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
• Jer 14:13-15 : 13 Then I said, 'Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, the prophets say to them, 'You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.'' 14 Then the LORD said to me, 'The prophets prophesy lies in My name; I have not sent them, nor commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision and divination, a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart.' 15 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name, and I have not sent them, yet they say, 'Sword and famine shall not be in this land'—by sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.
• Jer 14:18 : 18 If I go out to the field, then behold, those slain with the sword; and if I enter the city, then behold, those sick from famine! Yes, both prophet and priest roam about in a land they do not know.
• Jer 32:24 : 24 Behold the siege ramps, they have come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what you have spoken is come to pass; and, behold, you see it.
• Jer 52:6 : 6 And in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
• Ezek 4:13-16 : 13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them. 14 Then I said, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul has not been polluted, for from my youth up till now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself or is torn in pieces, neither has abominable flesh come into my mouth. 15 Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's dung instead of human dung, and you shall prepare your bread with it. 16 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment: