H1690 דְּבֵלָה (dᵉbêlâh) deb-ay-law'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

fig cake

Strong's Definition

a cake of pressed figs

Derivation: from an unused root (akin to H2082 (זָבַל)) probably meaning to press together;

KJV Usage: cake (lump) of figs.

TWOT Reference: 397a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) fig cake, lump of pressed figs

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

דְּבֵלָה (de.ve.lah) — fig cake. fig cake, lump of pressed figs

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

דְּבֵלָה (H1690) — דְּבֶלֶת

noun f

Food

fig cake = cake; ◄ made of pressed dried figs; ► used as food and occasionally as medical treatment

1SA 25:18 · 1SA 30:12 · 2KI 20:7 · 1CH 12:41 · ISA 38:21

Enio R. Mueller

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

דְּבֵלָה n.f. lump of pressed figs, pressed (fig-) cake base

Bible Occurrences (5)

25:18 30:12

20:7

12:40

38:21

1 Samuel 25:18

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

1 Samuel 30:12

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 20:7

Then Isaiah said, Prepare a poultice of figs. So they brought it and applied it to the boil, and [Hezekiah] recovered.

1 Chronicles 12:40

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.

Isaiah 38:21

Now Isaiah had said, Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.