Lexical Definition

‎דּוּדַי‎ dûwday (doo-dah'-ee) mandrake ^H:N-M
from ‎דּוּד‎

basket, mandrake.

• a boiler or basket
• also the mandrake (as an aphrodisiac)

1) mandrake, love-apple
1a) as exciting sexual desire, and favouring procreation

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎דּוּדַי‎] noun masculine^{Gen 30:14} mandrake (as love-producing, compare Di Gen 30:14) — plural ‎דּוּדָאִים‎ (compare Ew^{189 g Sta§§ 301. 122}) Gen 30:14; Song 7:14* construct ‎דּוּדָאֵי‎ Gen 30:14 + 3 t.; — mandrakes, as exciting sexual desire, and favouring procreation Gen 30:14 (twice in verse); Gen 30:15 (twice in verse); Gen 30:16 (J); also Song 7:14* where odour referred to. On ‎דּוּדָאֵי‎ Jer 24:1 vessels, baskets, see ‎דּוּד‎.

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