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# דְּבֵלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1690

**lump** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

lump [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1690/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דְּבֵלָה: n.f. lump pressed (fig-) cake [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1690/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. lump of pressed figs, pressed (fig-) cake (NH דְּבֵילָה, Aramaic id., ܕܒܶܠܬܳܐ, = Greek παλάθη; Arabic دُبْلَةٌ lump, large gobbet or mouthful; cf. Assyrian dublu, foundation, & Heb. synon. אֲשִׁישָׁה Dl HA 58)—דְּבֵלָה 1 S 30:12; cstr. דְּבֶלֶת 2 K 20:7 = Is 38:21; pl. דְּבֵלִים 1 S 25:18 1 Ch 12:41;—used as food 1 S 25:18; 30:12; 1 Ch 12:41 דְּבֶלֶת תְּאֵנִים, as application to boil, or eruption 2 K 20:7 = Is 38:21.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a cake (2); fig cakes (2); of fig cake (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 38:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.21/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְשַׁעְיָ֔הוּ יִשְׂא֖וּ דְּבֶ֣לֶת תְּאֵנִ֑ים וְיִמְרְח֥וּ עַֽל־הַשְּׁחִ֖ין וְיֶֽחִי׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Isaiah let.them.take a.cake of.figs and let.them.rub.\[it\] on the boil so that.he.may.live

*JPS 1917:* And Isaiah said: 'Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.'

[2 Kings 20:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.20.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.20.7/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְשַֽׁעְיָ֔הוּ קְח֖וּ דְּבֶ֣לֶת תְּאֵנִ֑ים וַיִּקְח֛וּ וַיָּשִׂ֥ימוּ עַֽל־הַשְּׁחִ֖ין וַיֶּֽחִי׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Isaiah take a.cake of.figs and people.took.\[it\] and they.put.\[it\] on the boil and he.lived

*JPS 1917:* And Isaiah said: 'Take a cake of figs.' And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1690.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1690/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).