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KJV 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.
KJVP And there was H1961 a great H1419 famine H7458 in Samaria: H8111 and, behold, H2009 they besieged H6696 H5921 it, until H5704 an ass's H2543 head H7218 was H1961 sold for fourscore H8084 pieces of silver, H3701 and the fourth part H7255 of a cab H6894 of dove's dung H1686 for five H2568 pieces of silver. H3701
YLT 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.
ASV And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an asss head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of doves dung for five pieces of silver.
WEB 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.
RV And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass-s head was sold for fourscore {cf15i pieces} of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove-s dung for five {cf15i pieces} of silver.
NET 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.
ERVEN The soldiers would not let people bring food into the city, so there was a time of terrible hunger in Samaria. It was so bad in Samaria that a donkey's head was sold for 80 pieces of silver and one pint of dove's dung sold for five pieces of silver.