King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H5936
Transliteration: aluqah
Phonetic Spelling: (al-oo-kaw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: a leech
Meaning: the leech
Word 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