Lexicon
עֲלוּקָה
a.lu.qah
H5936
H:N-F Hebrew

leech

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a.lu.qah denotes the creature whose two daughters cry, “Give, give,” in a saying about insatiability.

The sole attested use names the creature introduced before its two daughters’ repeated demand, within a saying about things that never say, “Enough.”

Senses in use

  1. Creature in an image of insatiable demand · dominant

    In Proverbs 30:15, the feminine singular absolute noun introduces a creature with “two daughters that cry, Give, give”; the APB then places the saying beside things that are never satisfied.

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Proverbs 30:15, the APB presents the term as “The leech” at the start of the saying. Its wording confirms the verse’s image without establishing finer nuance.

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