H1736 - דּוּדַי (dûwday)

H1736 דּוּדַי (dûwday) doo-dah'-ee

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

mandrake

Strong's Definition

a boiler or basket; also the mandrake (as an aphrodisiac)

Derivation: from H1731 (דּוּד);

KJV Usage: basket, mandrake.

TWOT Reference: 410d

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) mandrake, love-apple

1a) as exciting sexual desire, and favouring procreation

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

דּוּדַי dûday BDB Definition: 1) mandrake, love-apple 1a) as exciting sexual desire, and favouring procreation Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H1731 Same Word by TWOT Number: 410d Total KJV Occurrences: 7

Bible Occurrences (3)

30:14 30:15 30:16

Genesis 30:14

Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben... went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother -, Rachel begged... Leah, Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.

Genesis 30:15

But Leah replied, Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you want to take my son’s mandrakes [as well]? Very well, said Rachel, he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.

Genesis 30:16

When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, You must come with me, for I have hired you... with my son’s mandrakes. So [he] slept with her that night.