Lexicon
חֶרֶא
che.re
H2716
H:N-M Hebrew

dung

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Books
Hebrew
Language

che.re denotes excrement in Isaiah 36:12, where besieged men are threatened with consuming their own waste.

The sole attested use places the term in a threat that men sitting on the wall will be reduced to consuming their own bodily waste.

Senses in use

  1. Excrement consumed under siege threat · dominant

    In Isaiah 36:12, the masculine plural construct form occurs in the statement about men sitting on the wall who are to eat their own waste; the APB renders the clause “that they may eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you.”

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Isaiah 36:12, the APB presents the term within the phrase “eat their own dung,”.

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