Genesis 30:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

mandrakes. Septuagint mandragora, the root easily formed, by pinching it, into the shape of. man. Hence its name; also supposed to be and used as. "love-philtre". Arabic. "apples of Satan".

Genesis 30:14

14 And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.