זוֹבzôwb
issue, flux, always from genitals (Leviticus 15:2; Leviticus 15:33; Leviticus 15:3; Leviticus 15:13; Leviticus 15:15)
Pronunciation: zobe · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2101
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 13 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 15:2 “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. “Any man who has a bodily discharge is ceremonially unclean.
- Leviticus 15:3 This defilement is caused by his discharge, whether the discharge continues or stops. In either case the man is unclean.
- Leviticus 15:13 “When the man with the discharge is healed, he must count off seven days for the period of purification. Then he must wash his clothes and bathe himself in fresh water, and he will be ceremonially clean.
- Leviticus 15:15 The priest will offer one bird for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. Through this process, the priest will purify the man before the Lord for his discharge.
- Leviticus 15:19 “Whenever a woman has her menstrual period, she will be ceremonially unclean for seven days. Anyone who touches her during that time will be unclean until evening.
- Leviticus 15:25 “If a woman has a flow of blood for many days that is unrelated to her menstrual period, or if the blood continues beyond the normal period, she is ceremonially unclean. As during her menstrual period, the woman will be unclean as long as the discharge continues.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).