Lexical Summary paqquoth: gourds Original Word: פַקֻּעָהTransliteration: paqquoth Phonetic Spelling: (pak-koo-aw') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: gourds Meaning: the wild cucumber Strong's Concordance gourd From the same as peqa'; the wild cucumber (from splitting open to shed its seeds) -- gourd. see HEBREW peqa' Brown-Driver-Briggs H6498. paqquoth מַּקֻּעֹת noun [feminine] plural gourds (wild cucumbers, citrullus colocynthis, with purgative properties, according to PostHastings DB ii. 250 DeRi HWB 278 f. ᵐ5 κολοκυνθις; > momordica (or ecballium) elaterium, which is not a vine; compare Syriac , fruit of colocynthis (or the similar cucumis prophetarum, Löwl.c. Brock); — construct ׳פ שָׂדֶה 2 Kings 4:39. מַּר see פרר. |
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