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Dung
(1.) Used as manure (Luke 13:8); collected outside the city walls (Neh 2:13). Of sacrifices, burned outside the camp (Ex 29:14; Lev 4:11; Lev 8:17; Num 19:5). To be “cast out as dung,” a figurative expression (1 Kgs 14:10; 2 Kgs 9:37; Jer 8:2; Ps 18:42), meaning to be rejected as unprofitable.
(2.) Used as fuel, a substitute for firewood, which was with difficulty procured in Syria, Arabia, and Egypt (Ezek 4:12–15), where cows’ and camels’ dung is used to the present day for this purpose.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
