Gourd
פֶּקָעִיםStrong’s H6497peqa (pe-qa)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Peqa is the Hebrew word usually translated “gourds”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.”
Meaning
- Knob-shaped or ball-shaped or gourd-shaped carved wood or metal ornament
How it's translated
- gourds 1
- and gourds 1
- the gourds 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 2
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
פֶּקָעִים peqa · gourd
knob-shaped or ball-shaped or gourd-shaped carved wood or metal ornament
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “gourd” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GOURD, noun
A plant and its fruit, of the genus Cucurbita. There are several species, as the bottle-gourd, the shell-gourd or calabash, the warted gourd etc. The shell is sometimes used for a piggin or for a bottle.
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.