King James Bible Dictionary

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

The uses of dung were two-fold

as manure and as fuel. The manure consisted either of straw steeped in liquid manure, (Isaiah 25:10) or the sweepings, (Isaiah 5:25) of the streets and roads, which were carefully removed from about the houses, and collected in heaps outside the walls of the towns at fixed spots

hence the dung-gate at Jerusalem

and thence removed in due course to the fields. The difficulty of procuring fuel in Syria, Arabia and Egypt has made dung in all ages valuable as a substitute. It was probably used for heating ovens and for baking cakes, (Ezra 4:12,15) the equable heat which it produced adapting it pecularily for the latter operation. Cow's and camels dung is still used for a similar purpose by the Bedouins.

DUNG, noun [G.] The excrement of animals.

DUNG, verb transitive To manure with dung

DUNG, verb intransitive To void excrement.

DUNGED, participle passive Manured with dung.

Different from the ordinary prison in being more severe as a place of punishment. Like the Roman inner prison (Acts 16:24), it consisted of a deep cell or cistern (Jeremiah 38:6). To be shut up in, a punishment common in Egypt (Genesis 39:20; 40:3; 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 Chronicles 16:10; Jeremiah 20:2; 32:2; 33:1; 37:15), and it was customary after the Exile (Matthew 11:2; Luke 3:20; Acts 5:18, 21; Matthew 18:30).

In prisons
Jeremiah 38:6; Lamentations 3:53
Prison

[PRISON]

DUNGEON, noun

1. A close prison; or a deep, dark place of confinement.

And in a dungeon deep.

They brought Joseph hastily out of the dungeon Genesis 41:14.

2. A subterraneous place of close confinement.

DUNGEON, verb transitive To confine in a dungeon

DUNGFORK, noun A fork used to throw dung from a stable or into a cart, or to spread it over land.

(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.

To sit on a, was a sign of the deepest dejection (1 Samuel 2:8; Psalms 113:7; Lamentations 4:5).

DUNGHILL, noun

1. A heap of dung.

2. A mean or vile abode.

3. Any mean situation or condition.

He lifteth the beggar from the dunghill 1 Samuel 2:8.

4. A term of reproach for a man meanly born. [Not used.]

DUNGHILL, adjective Sprung from the dunghill; mean; low; base; vile.

DUNGY, adjective Full of dung; filthy; vile.

DUNGYARD, noun A yard or inclosure where dung is collected.