Fig cake
דְּבֵלָהStrong’s H1690develah (de-ve-lah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Develah is the Hebrew word usually translated “fig cakes”, “cake of” and “fig cake”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.”
Meaning
- Fig cake, lump of pressed figs
How it's translated
- fig cakes 2
- a cake of 2
- fig cake 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 2
- 2 Kings 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 30:12And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
- 2 Kings 20:7And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
- 1 Chronicles 12:40Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel.
- Isaiah 38:21For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
Hebrew dictionary
דְּבֵלָה develah · fig cake
fig cake, lump of pressed figs
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.