tsamuk · raisin cake

What it means

tsamuk (צַמּוּק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “raisin cake”.

Cake or cluster of raisins.

How to say it

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

1. Clusters of pressed dried grapes.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• clusters of raisins ×3
• cakes of raisins ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Chronicles×1

• 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 Samuel 16:1

  David had gone on a little from the summit, and there was Ziba, the young man of Mephibosheth, to meet him, with a pair of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.

• 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.