לָבִיבָה
laviva · cake
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3834 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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laviva (לָבִיבָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cake”.
Dough cooked in a pan. Its name sounds like the word for "heart".
How to say it
la·vi·va
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
- Small breads of dough that were kneaded and cooked on the spot.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Where it appears
- 2 Samuel 13:6
Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill, and the king came to see him. Amnon said to the king, “Please let Tamar my sister come and make two cakes before my eyes, and I will eat from her hand.”
- 2 Samuel 13:8
Tamar went to the house of Amnon her brother, and he was lying down. She took the dough and kneaded it and made cakes before his eyes and cooked the cakes.
- 2 Samuel 13:10
Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the meal into the room, and I will eat from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes that she had made and brought them to Amnon her brother in the room.