דְּבֵלָה
devela · fig cake
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1690 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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devela (דְּבֵלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fig cake”.
Cake of dried, pressed figs; a food that keeps and is carried on journeys.
How to say it
de·ve·la
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A block of pressed dried figs.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- cake ×3
- cakes of figs ×2
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Where it appears
- 1 Samuel 25:18
Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep ready dressed, and five seahs of roasted grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on the donkeys.
- 1 Samuel 30:12
They gave him a piece of fig cake and two clusters of raisins, and he ate, and his spirit returned to him, for he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three days and three nights.
- 2 Kings 20:7
Isaiah said, “Take a cake of figs.” They took it and put it on the boil, and he lived.
- 1 Chronicles 12:40
And also those near to them, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, were bringing bread on donkeys and on camels and on mules and on cattle: food of flour, cakes of figs and cakes of raisins, and wine and oil, and cattle and sheep in abundance; for there was joy in Israel.
- Isaiah 38:21
Isaiah said, “Let them take a cake of figs and rub it on the boil, and he will live.”