דְּבֵלָה
de.ve.lah
“fig cake”
Definition
a cake of pressed figs
from an unused root (akin to H2082 (זָבַל)) probably meaning to press together;
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
דְּבֵלָה appears 4 times in the Old Testament.
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Key Passages
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
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.
Then Isaiah said, “Prepare a poultice of figs.” So they brought it and applied it to the boil, and Hezekiah recovered.
Now Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.