Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
| Strong's Number: | H5936 |
|---|---|
| Word: | עֲלוּקָה |
| Part of Speech: | noun fem |
| Etymology: | feminine passive participle of an unused root meaning to suck |
| Language: | Hebrew |
| Occurrences: | 1 |
| Transliteration: | aluwqah |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | `aluwqah (al-oo-kaw') n-f. |
| Meaning: | 1. the leech |
| KJV Renderings: | horse-leech. |
Strong's is an index and starting point, not the final meaning of a word. Do not build doctrine from a gloss, root, or number. Test meaning by sentence, grammar, authorial usage, context, and the passage argument.
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); — שְׁתֵּי בָנוֺת ׳ לְַ Prov 30:15.
עֹלָ֫תָה Job 5:16 etc., see עַוְלָה below עָוַל.
I, II. עַם, עִם see below I. עמם. p. 766-67, 769
Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke
