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de.ve.lah H1690

דְּבֵלָה (de.ve.lah) means “fig cake” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

דְּבֵלָה Hebrew · H1690 5 tagged occurrences in 5 verses

Pronunciation guide: deb-ay-law' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H1690

דְּבֵלָה · de.ve.lah · fig cake

fig cake, lump of pressed figs

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from an unused root (akin to H2082 (זָבַל)) probably meaning to press together; a cake of pressed figs

KJV glosses: cake (lump) of figs.

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How translators render H1690

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BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
a lump 1
a poultice 1
cakes of figs 1
fig cakes 1
of a fig cake 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
a lump 2
cakes 2
of a cake 1

Verses containing H1690

Page 1 of 1. 5 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. 1 Samuel 25:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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

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  2. 1 Samuel 30:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  3. 2 Kings 20:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  4. 1 Chronicles 12:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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    Source alternate reference: 12.41

  5. Isaiah 38:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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