fig cake
de.ve.lah denotes a fig preparation used as provisions or placed on a boil.
The occurrences show a fig preparation supplied and eaten as food in 1 Samuel 25:18 and 1 Samuel 30:12, and a fig preparation placed on a boil in 2 Kings 20:7 and Isaiah 38:21.
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Fig preparation used as food or provisions · dominant
The plural absolute form occurs among provisions loaded on donkeys in 1 Samuel 25:18; the APB renders the item “fig cakes.” The singular absolute form is given to a man who eats it in 1 Samuel 30:12, where the APB renders “a piece of fig cake.”
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Fig preparation applied to a boil · common
The singular construct form is taken and applied to a boil in 2 Kings 20:7; the APB renders the clause “Take a cake of figs.” Isaiah 38:21 likewise has the item lifted and rubbed upon the boil, with the APB rendering “a cake of figs.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the item as “fig cakes” among provisions, “a piece of fig cake” given for eating, and “a cake of figs” applied to a boil. These phrases confirm the verse contexts rather than define the term independently.