Horseleach
Horseleach
See Leech
Fuente: Plants Animals Of Bible
Horseleach
(Pro 30:15). Typifying rapacious and cruel covetousness. The “two daughters” who come out of her are the two words “give,” “give” (see Pro 30:14). ‘Aluquah, from an unused Hebrew root, “adhere.”
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Horseleach
horslech (, alukah; compare Arabic alukah, ghoul, and alakah, leech, from root alk, to cling; Septuagint , bdella, leech): The word occurs only once, in Pro 30:15, the Revised Version margin vampire. In Arabic alakah is a leech of any kind, not only a horse-leech. The Arabic alukah, which, it may be noted, is almost identical with the Hebrew form, is a ghoul (Arabic ghul), an evil spirit which seeks to injure men and which preys upon the dead. The mythical vampire is similar to the ghoul. In zology the name vampire is applied to a family of bats inhabiting tropical America, some, but not all, of which suck blood. In the passage cited the Arabic Bible has alukah, ghoul. If leech is meant, there can be no good reason for specifying horseleach. At least six species of leech are known in Palestine and Syria, and doubtless others exist. They are common in streams, pools, and fountains where animals drink. They enter the mouth, attach themselves to the interior of the mouth or pharynx, and are removed only with difficulty.