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# עֲלוּקָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5936

**leech** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

leech [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5936/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲלוּקָה: n.f. leech [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5936/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. leech (perhaps Aramaic loan-wd.; \> vampyre-like demon, Ew al. = Arabic ʿAulaḳ WeHeid. 2, 149, or name of sage, as some Rabb.; v. discussion De Toy);—לַע׳ שְׁתֵּי בָנוֹת Pr 30:15.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a leech (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 30:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.15/#tree)

לַֽעֲלוּקָ֨ה ׀ שְׁתֵּ֥י בָנוֹת֮ הַ֤ב ׀ הַ֥ב שָׁל֣וֹשׁ הֵ֭נָּה לֹ֣א תִשְׂבַּ֑עְנָה אַ֝רְבַּ֗ע לֹא־אָ֥מְרוּ הֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* \[belong\].to a.leech two daughters give give three.\[things\] they not they.are.satisfied four.\[things\] not they.say enough

*JPS 1917:* The horseleech hath two daughters: 'Give, give.' There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four that say not: 'Enough':

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5936.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5936/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).