עלוקה

Compare Aramaic עלקא (var. ערקא), Arabic عَلَقَة (ʕalaqa).

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /(ʕ)a.luˈka/

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• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʕă.luː.qɔː/

עֲלוּקָה • (ʿălūqâ) f (plural indefinite עֲלוּקוֹת, singular construct עֲלוּקַת־) [pattern: קְטוּלָה]

1. leech
   • Tanach, Proverbs 30:15, with translation of the American Standard Version:

     לַעֲלוּקָה שְׁתֵּי בָנוֹת הַב הַב

     laʿălūqâ štê ḇānôt háḇ háḇ

     The leech has two daughters: Give and Give.

2. horseleech
   • Tanach, Proverbs 30:15, with translation of the King James Version:

     לַעֲלוּקָה שְׁתֵּי בָנוֹת הַב הַב

     laʿălūqâ štê ḇānôt háḇ háḇ

     The horseleech hath two daughters, crying, Give, give.

3. (figurative, colloquial, derogatory, often youth slang) A needy and bothersome person

• H5936 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Sokoloff, Michael (2002) A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic periods, Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University, →ISBN, page 869,878,883

• עלוקה on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he