Mandrake
דּוּדַיStrong’s H1736duday (du-day)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Duday is the Hebrew word usually translated “mandrakes of”, “mandrakes” and “some of mandrakes of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And 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.”
Meaning
- Mandrake, love-appleas exciting sexual desire, and favouring procreation
How it's translated
- mandrakes of 2
- mandrakes 1
- some of mandrakes of 1
- for mandrakes of 1
- the mandrakes 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 3
- Song of Solomon 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 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 7:13The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
Hebrew dictionary
דּוּדַי duday · mandrake
1) mandrake, love-apple 1a) as exciting sexual desire, and favouring procreation
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mandrake” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MAN'DRAKE, noun
[Latin mandragoras.]
A plant of the genus Atropa, growing naturally in Spain, Italy and the Levant. It is a narcotic, and its fresh roots are a violent cathartic. Its effect in rendering barren women prolific is supposed to be imaginary.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.