mandrake
du.day denotes the plants Reuben finds and Leah exchanges in Genesis, with one uncertain construct-form use in a fig-basket scene.
The dominant use identifies plural items found in a field and then sought and exchanged between Leah and Rachel; a single construct-form occurrence appears in Jeremiah’s vision of two baskets of figs, where the translation does not securely isolate the term’s contribution.
Senses in use
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Plants found and exchanged within a family episode · dominant
In Genesis 30:14, the plural absolute form occurs as Reuben finds the items in a field and brings them to Leah; the APB renders the clause with “mandrakes.” In Genesis 30:15 and Genesis 30:16, plural construct forms occur in Leah and Rachel’s exchange and in Leah’s statement that she hired Jacob with her son’s items.
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Construct-form occurrence in a fig-basket vision · occasional
In Jeremiah 24:1, a plural construct form occurs in the vision whose clause the APB renders “two baskets of figs” before the temple. The term’s specific contribution to that phrase cannot be isolated with certainty.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “mandrakes” in the Genesis episode. In Jeremiah 24:1 it renders the surrounding phrase “two baskets of figs,” but its non-aligned translation does not establish which English word represents the construct form.