דּוּדַי
duday · mandrakes
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1736 · appears 7 times in the Bible
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duday (דּוּדַי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mandrakes”.
A plant with yellow, fragrant fruit that in ancient times was believed to help women have children.
How to say it
du·day
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A plant with yellow, fragrant fruit.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- mandrakes ×6
- baskets ×1
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 30:14
In the days of the wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field and brought them to Leah his mother. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of the mandrakes of your son.”
- Genesis 30:15
She said to her, “Is it a small thing that you have taken my husband? Would you take my son’s mandrakes too?” Rachel said, “Then he will lie with you tonight in exchange for the mandrakes of your son.”
- Genesis 30:16
Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him and said, “To me you must come, for I have surely hired you with the mandrakes of my son.” So he lay with her that night.
- Song of Songs 7:13
The mandrakes give fragrance, and at our doors are every kind of choice fruit, new and also old; my beloved, for you I have stored them up.
- Jeremiah 24:1
YHWH showed me, and look, two baskets of figs placed before the temple of YHWH, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried into exile Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, and the craftsmen and the smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
And 2 more times.