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# לְבִבָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3834

**cakes** — used 3 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

cakes [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3834/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לְבִבָה: n.pl. cakes [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3834/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pl. cakes (prob. pancakes, from shape?) לְבִבוֹת 2 S 13:6, 8, 10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: cakes (3).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 13:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.8/#tree)

וַתֵּ֣לֶךְ תָּמָ֗ר בֵּ֛ית אַמְנ֥וֹן אָחִ֖יהָ וְה֣וּא שֹׁכֵ֑ב וַתִּקַּ֨ח אֶת־הַבָּצֵ֤ק וַתָּ֙לָשׁ֙ וַתְּלַבֵּ֣ב לְעֵינָ֔יו וַתְּבַשֵּׁ֖ל אֶת־הַלְּבִבֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and she.went Tamar the.house of.Amnon brother her and he \[was\].lying.down and she.took (et) the dough and she.kneaded.\[it\] and she.made.cakes to eyes his and she.cooked (et) the cakes

*JPS 1917:* So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was lying down. And she took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.

[2 Samuel 13:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.10/#tree)

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אַמְנ֜וֹן אֶל־תָּמָ֗ר הָבִ֤יאִי הַבִּרְיָה֙ הַחֶ֔דֶר וְאֶבְרֶ֖ה מִיָּדֵ֑ךְ וַתִּקַּ֣ח תָּמָ֗ר אֶת־הַלְּבִבוֹת֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֔תָה וַתָּבֵ֛א לְאַמְנ֥וֹן אָחִ֖יהָ הֶחָֽדְרָה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Amnon to Tamar bring the food the chamber so that.I.may.eat from hand your and she.took Tamar (et) the cakes which she.had.made and she.brought.\[them\] to Amnon brother her to the chamber

*JPS 1917:* And Amnon said unto Tamar: 'Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat of thy hand.' And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3834.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3834/): 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).