דְּבֵלָה

de.ve.lahfig cakeHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · feminine5 occurrences4 books5 verses

Definition

from an unused root (akin to H2082) probably meaning to press together; a cake of pressed figs
Traditional renderings: cake (lump) of figs.

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

5 total
  1. 1 Samuel 25:18דְּבֵלִ֑ים · cakes of figs
    Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys
  2. 1 Samuel 30:12דְּבֵלָ֜ה · of a fig cake
    …a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. So he ate and was revived, for he had not had any food or water for three days and three nights.
  3. 2 Kings 20:7דְּבֶ֣לֶת · a poultice
    Then Isaiah said, “Prepare a poultice of figs.” So they brought it and applied it to the boil, and Hezekiah recovered.
  4. 1 Chronicles 12:40דְּבֵלִ֨ים · fig cakes
    And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.
  5. Isaiah 38:21דְּבֶ֣לֶת · a lump
    Now Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”