Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H1736
דּוּדַי
du.day · “mandrake”
Used 7 times across 3 books
Definition
1) mandrake, love-apple
1a) as exciting sexual desire, and favouring procreation
1a) as exciting sexual desire, and favouring procreation
Where it appears
Genesis5
Song of Solomon1
Jeremiah1
In the text
Genesis 30:14And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son’s mandrakes.Genesis 30:15And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son’s mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son’s mandrakes.Genesis 30:16And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.Song of Solomon 7:14Jeremiah 24:1The Lord shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the Lord, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
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