Strong's Definition
from 1731; a boiler or basket; also the mandrake (as an aphrodisiac)
KJV Usage: basket, mandrake
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
דּוּדַי (du.day) — mandrake. 1) mandrake, love-apple 1a) as exciting sexual desire, and favouring procreation
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m
Fruits | noun m pl
mandrake, love apple = wild perennial plant without stem; with large, fleshy, forked roots; with large oval leaves arranged in a rosette, purple flowers and yellow-green fruits; ◄ mandragora officinarum; ► used medicinally as narcotic and purgative; ≈ because its roots resemble the lower part of the human body this plant was generally believed to induce conception; its fragrance was considered sweet
GEN 30:14 · GEN 30:14 · GEN 30:15 · GEN 30:15 · GEN 30:16 · SNG 7:14
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[דּוּדַי] n.m. mandrake—On דּוּדָאֵי vessels, baskets, v. דּוּד base