Cake
לְבִבָהStrong’s H3834lavivah (la-vi-vah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Lavivah is the Hebrew word usually translated “cakes”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.”
Meaning
- Cakes, bread
How it's translated
- the cakes 2
- cakes 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 13:8So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house; and he was laid down. And she took flour, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.
- 2 Samuel 13:10And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the meat into the chamber, that I may eat of thine hand. And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.
Hebrew dictionary
לְבִבָה lavivah · cake
cakes, bread
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cake” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CAKE, noun
- A small mass of dough baked; or a composition of flour, butter, sugar, or other ingredients, baked in a small mass.
- Something in the form of a cake rather flat than high, but roundish; as a cake on a tree.
- A mass of matter concreted; as a cake of ice.
- A hard swelling on the flesh; or rather a concretion without such swelling.
All definitions and other forms of “cake”
CAKE, verb transitive
To form into a cake or mass.
CAKE, verb intransitive
To concrete, or form into a had mass, as dough in an oven, or as flesh or any other substance.
CAKE, verb intransitive
To cackle.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.