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title: פַּקֻּעֹת — gourds · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פַּקֻּעֹת (6498), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: gourds. BDB 1906: pl. gourds. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פַּקֻּעֹת

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«פַּקֻּעֹת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **gourds** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 6498 · **BDB:** פַּקֻּעֹת

### Glosses

gourds (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

gourds [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6498/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

pl. gourds [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6498/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f.\] pl. gourds (wild cucumbers, citrullus colocynthis, with purgative properties, according to PostHastings DB ii. 250 DeRIHWB 278 f. 𝔊 κολοκυνθίς; \> momordica (or ecballium) elaterium, which is not a vine; cf. Syriac ܦܰܩܽܘܥܳܐ, fruit of colocynthis (or the similar cucumis prophetarum), Löwl.c. Brock):—cstr. פ׳ שָׂדֶה 2 K 4:39.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פַּקֻּעֹת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6498/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Kings 4:39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.39/)

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וַיֵּצֵ֨א אֶחָ֣ד אֶל־הַשָּׂדֶה֮ לְלַקֵּ֣ט אֹרֹת֒ וַיִּמְצָא֙ גֶּ֣פֶן שָׂדֶ֔ה וַיְלַקֵּ֥ט מִמֶּ֛נּוּ פַּקֻּעֹ֥ת שָׂדֶ֖ה מְלֹ֣א בִגְד֑וֹ וַיָּבֹ֗א וַיְפַלַּ֛ח אֶל־סִ֥יר הַנָּזִ֖יד כִּֽי־לֹ֥א יָדָֽעוּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.out one.\[man\] to the field to gather herbs and he.found a.vine of.\[the\].field and he.gathered from it gourds of.\[the\].field the.fullness his.garment his and he.came and he.sliced.\[them\] into the.pot of the.cooked.food (dm) not people.knew

*JPS 1917:* And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage; for they knew them not.

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