Dict: easton - Dung

easton:

Dung @

(1.) Used as manure kjv@Luke:13:8); collected outside the city walls kjv@Nehemiah:2:13). Of sacrifices, burned outside the camp kjv@Exodus:29:14; kjv@Leviticus:4:11 kjv@Leviticus:8:17; kjv@Numbers:19:5). To be "cast out as dung," a figurative expression (kjvKings:14:10; kjv@2Kings:9:37; kjv@Jeremiah:8:2; kjv@Psalms: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 kjv@Ezekiel:4:12-15), where cows' and camels' dung is used to the present day for this purpose.

Dung-gate @ kjv@Nehemiah:2:13), a gate of ancient Jerusalem, on the south-west quarter. "The gate outside of which lay the piles of sweepings and offscourings of the streets," in the valley of Tophet.

Dung-hill @ to sit on a, was a sign of the deepest dejection ( kjv@1Samuel:2:8; kjv@Psalms:113:7; kjv@Lamentations:4:5).

Dungeon @ different from the ordinary prison in being more severe as a place of punishment. Like the Roman inner prison kjv@Acts:16:24), it consisted of a deep cell or cistern kjv@Jeremiah:38:6). To be shut up in, a punishment common in Egypt kjv@Genesis:39:20 kjv@Genesis:40:3 kjv@Genesis:41:10 ; 42:19). It is not mentioned, however, in the law of Moses as a mode of punishment. Under the later kings imprisonment was frequently used as a punishment (2 Chron. 16:10; kjv@Jeremiah:20:2 kjv@Jeremiah:32:2 kjv@Jeremiah:33:1 ; 37:15), and it was customary after the Exile kjv@Matthew:11:2; kjv@Luke:3:20; kjv@Acts:5:18 kjv@Acts:5:21 kjv@Matthew:18:30).