King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H6498
Transliteration: paqquoth
Phonetic Spelling: (pak-koo-aw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: gourds
Meaning: the wild cucumber
Word Summary
paqquoth: gourds
Original Word: פַקֻּעָהTransliteration: paqquoth
Phonetic Spelling: (pak-koo-aw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: gourds
Meaning: the wild cucumber
Strong's Concordance
gourd From the same as peqa'; the wild cucumber (from splitting open to shed its seeds) -- gourd.
see HEBREW peqa'
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H6498. paqquoth
מַּקֻּעֹת noun [feminine] plural gourds (wild cucumbers, citrullus colocynthis, with purgative properties, according to PostHastings DB ii. 250 DeRi HWB 278 f. ᵐ5 κολοκυνθις; > momordica (or ecballium) elaterium, which is not a vine; compare Syriac , fruit of colocynthis (or the similar cucumis prophetarum, Löwl.c. Brock); — construct ׳פ שָׂדֶה 2 Kings 4:39.
מַּר see פרר.