דֹּמֶןdômen

dung, always in this form and always of corpses, lying on ground as offal (2 Kings 9:37; Jeremiah 8:2; Jeremiah 9:21; Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 25:33)

Pronunciation: do'-men · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1828

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 6 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Kings 9:37 Her remains will be scattered like dung on the plot of land in Jezreel, so that no one will be able to recognize her.’”
  • Psalms 83:10 They were destroyed at Endor, and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil.
  • Jeremiah 8:2 They will spread out their bones on the ground before the sun, moon, and stars—the gods my people have loved, served, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up again or buried but will be scattered on the ground like manure.
  • Jeremiah 9:22 This is what the Lord says: “Bodies will be scattered across the fields like clumps of manure, like bundles of grain after the harvest. No one will be left to bury them.”
  • Jeremiah 16:4 They will die from terrible diseases. No one will mourn for them or bury them, and they will lie scattered on the ground like manure. They will die from war and famine, and their bodies will be food for the vultures and wild animals.”
  • Jeremiah 25:33 In that day those the Lord has slaughtered will fill the earth from one end to the other. No one will mourn for them or gather up their bodies to bury them. They will be scattered on the ground like manure.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).