A cake made from pressed dried figs, used as food and sometimes as medicine.
About Fig Cake
The poultice was a lump or pressed block of dried figs.
Key References
Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys
a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. So he ate and was revived, for he had not had any food or water for three days and three nights.
All Scripture References (5)
1 Samuel (2)
Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys
a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. So he ate and was revived, for he had not had any food or water for three days and three nights.
2 Kings (1)
Then Isaiah said, “Prepare a poultice of figs.” So they brought it and applied it to the boil, and Hezekiah recovered.
1 Chronicles (1)
Isaiah (1)
Now Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”