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pat-bag פַּתְבַּג pat-bag

The king's food-portion (Daniel 1:5) — a PERSIAN loanword sitting in a Hebrew sentence (patibaga, 'allotment'), one of Daniel's tell-tale foreign words. KJV 'the king's meat' (meat = food), ASV 'the king's dainties.' → first discussed at Dan 1:5