דּוּדַי
du.day
“mandrake”
Definition
a boiler or basket; also the mandrake (as an aphrodisiac)
from H1731 (דּוּד);
- mandrake, love-apple 1a) as exciting sexual desire, and favouring procreation
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
דּוּדַי appears 3 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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.”
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.”
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.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.