Strong’s H3834 · Hebrew
לָבִיבָה
lâbîybâh
law-bee-baw'
Definition
a cake (either as fried or turned)
Etymology
or rather לְבִבָה; from H3823 (לָבַב) in its original sense of fatness (or perhaps of folding);
Where the KJV renders it
- cake
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