Lexicon aluqah: a leech Original Word: עֲלוּקָהPart of Speech: Noun Feminine Transliteration: aluqah Phonetic Spelling: (al-oo-kaw') Short Definition: leech NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom an unused word Definitiona leech NASB Translationleech (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs עֲלוּקָה noun feminine leech (perhaps Aramaic loan-word; > vampyre-like demon, Ew and others = Arabic ±Aula‡ We Heid. 2, 149, or name of sage, as some Rabbi; see discussion De Toy); — שְׁתֵּי בָנוֺת ׳לְַ Proverbs 30:15. עֹלָ֫תָה Job 5:16 etc., see עַוְלָה below עָוַל. I, II. עַם, עִם see below I. עמם. p. 766-67, 769
Strong's horse-leech Feminine passive participle of an unused root meaning to suck; the leech -- horse-leech. |
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