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Lexicon :: Strong's H1736 - dûḏay

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דּוּדַי
Transliteration
dûḏay
Pronunciation
doo-dah'-ee
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 410d

Strong’s Definitions

דּוּדַי dûwday, doo-dah'-ee; from H1731; a boiler or basket; also the mandrake (as an aphrodisiac):—basket, mandrake.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x

The KJV translates Strong's H1736 in the following manner: mandrake (6x), basket (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x
The KJV translates Strong's H1736 in the following manner: mandrake (6x), basket (1x).

  1. mandrake, love-apple

    1. as exciting sexual desire, and favouring procreation

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
דּוּדַי dûwday, doo-dah'-ee; from H1731; a boiler or basket; also the mandrake (as an aphrodisiac):—basket, mandrake.
STRONGS H1736: Abbreviations
† [דּוּדַי] noun masculineGenesis 30:14 mandrake (as love-producing, compare Di Genesis 30:14) — plural דּוּדָאִים (compare Ew189g Sta§§ 301. 122) Genesis 30:14; Songs 7:14 [Songs 7:13]; construct דּוּדָאֵי Genesis 30:14 + 3 times; — mandrakes, as exciting sexual desire, and favouring procreation Genesis 30:14 (twice in verse); Genesis 30:15 (twice in verse); Genesis 30:16 (J); also Songs 7:14 [Songs 7:13] where odour referred to. On דּוּדָאֵי Jeremiah 24:1 vessels, baskets, see דּוּד.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

30:14; 30:14; 30:14; 30:14; 30:14; 30:15; 30:16

Song of Songs

7:13; 7:13

Jeremiah

24:1

H1736

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Strong's Number H1736 matches the Hebrew דּוּדַי (dûḏay),
which occurs 7 times in 5 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:14 - During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:15 - But she said to her, “Wasn’t it enough that you took away my husband? Will you take my son’s mandrakes too?” “Very well,” Rachel said, “he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son’s mandrakes.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:16 - So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. “You must sleep with me,” she said. “I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:13 - The mandrakes send out their fragrance, and at our door is every delicacy, both new and old, that I have stored up for you, my beloved.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 24:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:1 - After Jehoiachin[fn] son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and the officials, the skilled workers and the artisans of Judah were carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD.
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