ED.) indicates this entry was also found in Easton's Bible Dictionary Used in small quantities like opium, it excites the nerves, and is a stimulant. Richardson ("Lectures on Alcohol," 1881) tried some experiments with wine made of the root of mandrake, and found it narcotic, causing sleep, so that the ancients used it as an anaesthetic. The Arabs call it "devils apple," from its power to excite voluptuousness. Its fruit when ripe (early in May) is about the size of a small apple, 24 inches in diameter, ruddy or yellow and of a most agreeable odor (to Orientals more than to Europeans) and an equally agreeable taste. The flowers are purple,and the root is usually forked. (It grows low, like lettuce, which its leaves somewhat resemble, except that they are of a dark green. bellndonna, and to the tomato, and belongs to the order Solanaceae, or potato family. dudraim ) are mentioned in ( Genesis 30:14 Genesis 30:16 ) and in Song 7:13 The mandrake, Atropa mandragora, is closely allied to the well-known deadly nightshade, A. "Easton's Bible Dictionary".īible Dictionaries - Smith's Bible Dictionary - Mandrakes Mandrakes indicates this entry was also found in Smith's Bible DictionaryĮaston, Matthew George. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, It has been called the "love-apple." The Arabs call it "Satan's apple." It still grows near Jerusalem, and in other parts of Palestine. The fruit of this plant resembles the potato-apple in size, and is of a pale orange colour. The weight of authority is in favour of its being regarded as the Mandragora officinalis of botanists, "a near relative of the night-shades, the 'apple of Sodom' and the potato plant." It possesses stimulating and narcotic properties ( Genesis 30:14-16 ). It has been rendered "violets," "Lilies," "jasmines," "truffles or mushrooms," "flowers," the "citron," etc. Many interpretations have been given of this word dudaim. Hebrew dudaim i.e., "love-plants", occurs only in Genesis 30:14-16 and Cant 7:13. Bible Dictionaries - Easton's Bible Dictionary - Mandrakes Mandrakes
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