Word Study · Strong's H5936 · Hebrew
עֲלוּקָה
aluqah
al-oo-kaw'
Strong's 1890 spelling: ʻălûwqâh
“the leech”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
the leech
Rendered in the KJV as
horse-leech.
- 1occurrencein the Old Testament
- 1 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 1inflected formdistinct spellings
Across 1 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 1
- לַֽעֲלוּקָ֨ה׀1
How it is rendered · 1
- [belong] to a leech1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 1
- preposition + noun · feminine singular1
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- HR/Ncfsa · 1
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