Lexical Summary aluqah: a leech Original Word: עֲלוּקָהTransliteration: aluqah Phonetic Spelling: (al-oo-kaw') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: a leech Meaning: the leech Strong's Concordance horse-leech Feminine passive participle of an unused root meaning to suck; the leech -- horse-leech. Brown-Driver-Briggs H5936. aluqah עֲלוּקָה noun feminine leech (perhaps Aramaic loan-word; > vampyre-like demon, Ew and others = Arabic ±Aula‡ WeHeid. 2, 149, or name of sage, as some Rabbi; see discussion De Toy); — ׳לְַ בָנוֺת שְׁתֵּי Proverbs 30:15. עֹלָ֫תָה Job 5:16 etc., see עַוְלָה below עָוַל. I, II. עִם עַם, see below I. עמם. p. 766-67, 769 |
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