לְבִבָה
la.vi.vah
“cake”
Definition
a cake (either as fried or turned)
or rather לְבִבָה; from H3823 (לָבַב) in its original sense of fatness (or perhaps of folding);
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
לְבִבָה appears 3 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”
So Tamar went to the house of her brother Amnon, who was lying down. She took some dough, kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked them.
Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the bedroom, so that I may eat it from your hand.”Tamar took the cakes she had made and went to her brother Amnon’s bedroom.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.