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.
Traditional renderings: cake (lump) of figs.
Usage patterns
Occurrences
5 total
- 1 Samuel 25:18דְּבֵלִ֑ים · cakes of figsThen 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
- 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.
- 2 Kings 20:7דְּבֶ֣לֶת · a poulticeThen Isaiah said, “Prepare a poultice of figs.” So they brought it and applied it to the boil, and Hezekiah recovered.
- 1 Chronicles 12:40דְּבֵלִ֨ים · fig cakesAnd 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.
- Isaiah 38:21דְּבֶ֣לֶת · a lumpNow Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”