Leech
עֲלוּקָהStrong’s H5936aluqah (a-lu-qah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Aluqah is the Hebrew word usually translated “leech”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:”
Meaning
- Leech
How it's translated
- to a leech 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
עֲלוּקָה aluqah · leech
leech
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “leech” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LEECH, noun
- A physician; a professor of the art of healing.
- A blood-sucker; an animal of the genus Hirudo, a species of aquatic worm, which is used in the medical art for topical bleeding.
- In seamen's language, the border or edge of a sail, which is sloping or perpendicular; as the fore-leech, the after-leech, etc.
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.