Word Study · Strong's H6498 · Hebrew

פַּקֻּעָה

paqquah

pak-koo-aw'

Strong's 1890 spelling: paqquʻâh

“the wild cucumber (from splitting open to shed its seeds)”

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

the wild cucumber (from splitting open to shed its seeds)

Rendered in the KJV as

gourd.

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Inflected forms · 1

פַּקֻּעֹ֥ת1

How it is rendered · 1

gourds of1

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How it parses · 1

noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1

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2 Kings1 occurrence

2 Kings 4:39פַּקֻּעֹ֥תpakuotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.here: gourds of

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