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# לִבֵּב

Biblical Hebrew

**make cakes** — used 2 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

make cakes [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b4_5d1_5b5_5bc_5d1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לבב³: vb. denom. make cakes [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b4_5d1_5b5_5bc_5d1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. denom. make cakes. Impf. תְּלַבֵּב 2 S 13:6, 8.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: let her make cakes (1); she made cakes (1).

## 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 13:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.6/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁכַּ֥ב אַמְנ֖וֹן וַיִּתְחָ֑ל וַיָּבֹ֨א הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ לִרְאֹת֗וֹ וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אַמְנ֤וֹן אֶל־הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ תָּֽבוֹא־נָ֞א תָּמָ֣ר אֲחֹתִ֗י וּתְלַבֵּ֤ב לְעֵינַי֙ שְׁתֵּ֣י לְבִב֔וֹת וְאֶבְרֶ֖ה מִיָּדָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.lay.down Amnon and he.made.himself.sick and he.came the king to see him and he.said Amnon to the king let.her.come please Tamar sister my and let.her.make.cakes to eyes my two cakes so that.I.may.eat from hand her

*JPS 1917:* So Amnon lay down, and feigned himself sick; and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king: 'Let my sister Tamar come, I pray thee, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5dc_5b4_5d1_5b5_5bc_5d1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b4_5d1_5b5_5bc_5d1/): 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).