Strong's Concordance
Original word: דִּבְיוֹנִים
Transliteration: dibyonim
Definition (short): dung
Definition (full): vegetable, a bulbous root
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin: of uncertain derivation
Definition: probably dove's dung
NASB Translation: dung (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
In the margin for the textual reading, cheryown {kher-yone'}; both (in the plural only and) of uncertain derivation; probably some cheap vegetable, perhaps a bulbous root -- dove's dung.
References
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.
NASB:
There was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.