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# פַּקֻּעֹת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6498

**gourds** — 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

gourds [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6498/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פַּקֻּעֹת: pl. gourds [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6498/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f.\] pl. gourds (wild cucumbers, citrullus colocynthis, with purgative properties, according to PostHastings DB ii. 250 DeRIHWB 278 f. 𝔊 κολοκυνθίς; \> momordica (or ecballium) elaterium, which is not a vine; cf. Syriac ܦܰܩܽܘܥܳܐ, fruit of colocynthis (or the similar cucumis prophetarum), Löwl.c. Brock):—cstr. פ׳ שָׂדֶה 2 K 4:39.

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: gourds (1).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 4:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.39/#tree)

וַיֵּצֵ֨א אֶחָ֣ד אֶל־הַשָּׂדֶה֮ לְלַקֵּ֣ט אֹרֹת֒ וַיִּמְצָא֙ גֶּ֣פֶן שָׂדֶ֔ה וַיְלַקֵּ֥ט מִמֶּ֛נּוּ פַּקֻּעֹ֥ת שָׂדֶ֖ה מְלֹ֣א בִגְד֑וֹ וַיָּבֹ֗א וַיְפַלַּ֛ח אֶל־סִ֥יר הַנָּזִ֖יד כִּֽי־לֹ֥א יָדָֽעוּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.out one.\[man\] to the field to gather herbs and he.found a.vine of.\[the\].field and he.gathered from it gourds of.\[the\].field the.fullness his.garment his and he.came and he.sliced.\[them\] into the.pot of the.cooked.food (dm) not people.knew

*JPS 1917:* And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage; for they knew them not.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6498.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6498/): 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).