Word Study · Strong's H1736 · Hebrew
דּוּדַי
duday
doo-dah'-ee
Strong's 1890 spelling: dûwday
“a boiler or basket”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
a boiler or basket; also the mandrake (as an aphrodisiac)
Rendered in the KJV as
basket, mandrake.
- 6occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 2 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 6inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 6 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 6
- בְּדוּדָאֵ֖י1
- דּוּדָאֵ֖י1
- דּוּדָאֵ֥י1
- דֽוּדָאִים֙1
- הַֽדּוּדָאִ֣ים1
- מִדּוּדָאֵ֖י1
How it is rendered · 5
- [the] mandrakes of2
- for [the] mandrakes of1
- mandrakes1
- some of [the] mandrakes of1
- the mandrakes1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 4
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)2
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)2
- noun · masculine plural1
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNcmpc · 2
- HR/Ncmpc · 2
- HNcmpa · 1
- HTd/Ncmpa · 1
All 6, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
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Genesis5 occurrences
- Genesis 30:14דֽוּדָאִים֙dudaimnoun · masculine pluralNow during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”here: mandrakes
- Genesis 30:14מִדּוּדָאֵ֖יmidudaeipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”here: some of [the] mandrakes of
- Genesis 30:15דּוּדָאֵ֖יdudaeinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)But Leah replied, “Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you want to take my son’s mandrakes as well?” “Very well,” said Rachel, “he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”here: [the] mandrakes of
- Genesis 30:15דּוּדָאֵ֥יdudaeinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)But Leah replied, “Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you want to take my son’s mandrakes as well?” “Very well,” said Rachel, “he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”here: [the] mandrakes of
- Genesis 30:16בְּדוּדָאֵ֖יbedudaeipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.here: for [the] mandrakes of