Strong's #4731: maqqel (pronounced mak-kale;)

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.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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maqqêl / maqqelâh

1) rod, staff

1a) rod, stick

1b) staff (in travel)

1c) wand (of diviner)

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from an unused root meaning apparently to germinate

Usage:

This word is used 18 times:

 

Genesis 30:37: "And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and peeled"
Genesis 30:37: "appear which was in the rods."
Genesis 30:38: "And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flocks in the gutters"
Genesis 30:39: "And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstreaked, speckled,"
Genesis 30:41: "that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive"
Genesis 30:41: "of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods."
Genesis 32:10: "which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over"
Exodus 12:11: "girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it"
Numbers 22:27: "and he smote the ass with a staff."
1 Samuel 17:40: "And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of"
1 Samuel 17:43: "thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David"
Jeremiah 1:11: "And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree."
Jeremiah 48:17: "staff broken, and the beautiful rod!"
Ezekiel 39:9: "and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire"
Hosea 4:12: "My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms"
Zechariah 11:7: "of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other"
Zechariah 11:10: "And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break"
Zechariah 11:14: "Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break"