H1736

דּוּדַי

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mandrake

1) mandrake, love-apple 1a) as exciting sexual desire, and favouring procreation

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

[דּוּדַי] noun masculineGen 30:14 mandrake (as love-producing, compare Di Gen 30:14) — plural דּוּדָאִים (compare Ew189 g Sta§§ 301. 122) Gen 30:14; Song 7:14 construct דּוּדָאֵי Gen 30:14 + 3 t.; — mandrakes, as exciting sexual desire, and favouring procreation Gen 30:14 (twice in verse); Gen 30:15 (twice in verse); Gen 30:16 (J); also Song 7:14 where odour referred to. On דּוּדָאֵי Jer 24:1 vessels, baskets, see דּוּד.


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