Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1690
דְּבֵלָה
debelahdeb-ay-law'
fig cake
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: dᵉbêlâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1690is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1690
a cake of pressed figs
The King James renders it: cake (lump) of figs.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
debelah is rendered "fig cake". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 25:18Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys
1 Samuel 25:18דְּבֵלִ֑ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's five uses are in 1 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a cake of2
- fig cakes2
- fig cake1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- דְּבֶ֣לֶת2
- דְּבֵלָ֜ה1
- דְּבֵלִ֑ים1
- דְּבֵלִ֨ים1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcfsc
- noun · masculine plural2HNcmpa
- noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
1 Samuel
two uses
Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys
- דְּבֵלִ֑יםdevelimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: fig cakes
a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. So he ate and was revived, for he had not had any food or water for three days and three nights.
- דְּבֵלָ֜הdevelahnoun · feminine singulartagged: fig cake
2 Kings
one use
Then Isaiah said, “Prepare a poultice of figs.” So they brought it and applied it to the boil, and Hezekiah recovered.
- דְּבֶ֣לֶתdeveletnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a cake of
1 Chronicles
one use
And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.
- דְּבֵלִ֨יםdevelimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: fig cakes
Isaiah
one use
Now Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”
- דְּבֶ֣לֶתdeveletnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a cake of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.