Topic
Horseleech
1 passage cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
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- Proverbs 30:16Smith
The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
In the reference works
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 1 references
Heb. ’alukah , occurs once only, viz. (Proverbs 30:16) There is little doubt that ’alukah denotes some species of leech, or rather is the generic term for any blood-sucking annelid.
Texts: Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.