Strong's Concordance
Original word: מַקֵּל;
Transliteration: maqqel or maqqelah
Definition (short): rods
Definition (full): a shoot, stick
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin: of uncertain derivation
Definition: a rod, staff
NASB Translation: rod (1), rods (6), staff (5), staffs (1), stick (2), sticks (1), wand (1), war clubs (1).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries.
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
Or (feminine) maqqlah {mak-kel-aw'}; from an unused root meaning apparently to germinate; a shoot, i.e. Stick (with leaves on, or for walking, striking, guiding, divining) -- rod, ((hand-))staff.
References
KJV:
And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
NASB:
Then Jacob took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white stripes in them, exposing the white which was in the rods.
KJV:
And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
NASB:
He set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the gutters, even in the watering troughs, where the flocks came to drink; and they mated when they came to drink.
KJV:
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
NASB:
So the flocks mated by the rods, and the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.
KJV:
And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
NASB:
Moreover, whenever the stronger of the flock were mating, Jacob would place the rods in the sight of the flock in the gutters, so that they might mate by the rods;