דּוּדַיdûwday
mandrakes (Genesis 30:14; Song of Solomon 7:14; Genesis 30:15; Genesis 30:16; Jeremiah 24:1)
Pronunciation: doo-dah'-ee · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1736
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 6 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 30:14 One day during the wheat harvest, Reuben found some mandrakes growing in a field and brought them to his mother, Leah. Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
- Genesis 30:15 But Leah angrily replied, “Wasn’t it enough that you stole my husband? Now will you steal my son’s mandrakes, too?” Rachel answered, “I will let Jacob sleep with you tonight if you give me some of the mandrakes.”
- Genesis 30:16 So that evening, as Jacob was coming home from the fields, Leah went out to meet him. “You must come and sleep with me tonight!” she said. “I have paid for you with some mandrakes that my son found.” So that night he slept with Leah.
- Song of Solomon 7:13 There the mandrakes give off their fragrance, and the finest fruits are at our door, new delights as well as old, which I have saved for you, my lover.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).