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עֲלוּקָה

ʻălûwqâh · H5936 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. Nile leech

    A worm-like creature that lives in streams, swamps, or damp ground; its specialized mouth makes small cuts in the skin of its victims, which may be humans, animals, reptiles, or fish, after which it fastens itself firmly on to the surrounding skin and gorges itself on blood; Limnatis nilotica; associated with greed

    Examples

    Proverbs 30:15 The leech has two daughters: “Give” and “Give.” There are three things that will not be satisfied, Four that will not say, “Enough”:

How it’s used In 2 roles

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the word studied the word it goes with

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Swarming Creatures001001002006
עֲלוּקָה denotes the horse-leech, used figuratively in Proverbs 30:15's "the leech has two daughters, 'Give,' 'Give.'"
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5936. aluqah עֲלוּקָה noun feminine leech (perhaps Aramaic loan-word; > vampyre-like…
H5936. aluqah
עֲלוּקָה noun feminine leech (perhaps Aramaic loan-word; > vampyre-like demon, Ew and others = Arabic ±Aula‡ WeHeid. 2, 149, or name of sage, as some Rabbi; see discussion De Toy); — ׳לְַ בָנוֺת שְׁתֵּי Pro 30:15.
עֹלָ֫תָה Job 5:16 etc., see עַוְלָה below עָוַל.
I, II. עִם עַם, see below I. עמם. p. 766-67, 769

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Swarming Creatures1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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