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title: לְבִבָה — cakes · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לְבִבָה (3834), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: cakes. BDB 1906: n.pl. cakes. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לְבִבָה

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«לְבִבָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cakes** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 3834 · **BDB:** לְבִבָה

### Glosses

cakes (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לְבִבָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3834/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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