HebrewH1690Noun (Feminine)

דְּבֵלָה

de.ve.lah

4Occurrences
H1690Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a cake of pressed figs

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

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
fig cake, lump of pressed figs

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

H:N-F

Full Description

H:N-F

Occurrences

דְּבֵלָה appears 4 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Samuel
2
2 Kings
1
Isaiah
1

Key Passages

1 Samuel 25:18BSB

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 30:12BSB

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 20:7BSB

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

Isaiah 38:21BSB

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

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