A cake made of dried, compressed grapes, often eaten at festivals or special ceremonies.
About Raisin Cake
A special food of ancient people (Isaiah 16:7). The cakes did not spoil. This made them useful for soldiers and travelers (2 Samuel 6:19). They were used as offerings to idols (Hosea 3:1). Sometimes they were served as aphrodisiacs to increase sexual desire (Song of Solomon 2:5).
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
All Scripture References (5)
2 Samuel (1)
Then he distributed to every man and woman among the multitude of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. And all the people departed, each to his own home.
1 Chronicles (1)
Then he distributed to every man and woman of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake.
Song of Solomon (1)
Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.
Isaiah (1)
Therefore let Moab wail; let them wail together for Moab. Moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth, you who are utterly stricken.
Hosea (1)
Then the LORD said to me, “Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love to offer raisin cakes to idols.”