What Is Mandrakes in the Bible?
Plant
A plant with a thick root. People used to believe it helped women have children.
Where it appears in the Bible
Genesis 30:14
What the Bible says
Genesis 30:14
And Ruben, going out in the time of the wheat harvest into the field, found mandrakes: which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel said: Give me part of thy son’s mandrakes.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “mandrágora”; Genesis 30:14-16