Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1736
דּוּדַי
dudaydoo-dah'-ee
mandrake
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: dûwday
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1736is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1736
a boiler or basket; also the mandrake (as an aphrodisiac)
The King James renders it: basket, mandrake.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
duday is rendered "mandrake". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Five of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 30:14Now 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.”
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
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.”
Genesis 30:14דֽוּדָאִים֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's six uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- mandrakes of2
- for mandrakes of1
- mandrakes1
- some of mandrakes of1
- the mandrakes1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| דּוּשׁ | dush | to tread | Uses16 |
| דּוּד | dud | pot | Uses8 |
| דּוּר | dur | to dwell | Uses7 |
| דּוּחַ | duach | to wash | Uses4 |
| דּוּמִיָּה | dumiah | silence | Uses4 |
| דּוּמָם | dumam | silence | Uses3 |
| דּוּר | dur | to dwell | Uses2 |
| דּוּר | dur | circle | Uses2 |
| דּוּמָה | dumah | silence | Uses2 |
| דּוּכִיפַת | dukiphath | hoopoe | Uses2 |
| דּוּב | dub | to pine | Uses1 |
| דּוּץ | duts | to dance | Uses1 |
and 4 more on the stem.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בְּדוּדָאֵ֖י1
- דּוּדָאֵ֖י1
- דּוּדָאֵ֥י1
- דֽוּדָאִים֙1
- הַֽדּוּדָאִ֣ים1
- מִדּוּדָאֵ֖י1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmpc
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncmpc
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HTd/Ncmpa
Genesis
five uses
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.”
- דֽוּדָאִים֙dudaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: mandrakes
- מִדּוּדָאֵ֖יmidudaeipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: some of mandrakes 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.”
- דּוּדָאֵ֖יdudaeinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: mandrakes of
- דּוּדָאֵ֥יdudaeinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: mandrakes 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.
- בְּדוּדָאֵ֖יbedudaeipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: for mandrakes of
Song of Solomon
one use
The mandrakes send forth a fragrance, and at our door is every delicacy, new as well as old, that I have treasured up for you, my beloved.
- הַֽדּוּדָאִ֣יםhadudaimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the mandrakes
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.