Gourd
פַּקֻּעֹתStrong’s H6498paqquah (paq-qu-ah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Paqquah is the Hebrew word usually translated “gourds of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.”
Meaning
- Gourds
How it's translated
- gourds of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
פַּקֻּעֹת paqquah · gourd
gourds
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.