זוּב
to flow
also: gush, issue, discharge fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H2100 appears in the Book of Numbers — 5 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Numbers
- Numbers 5:2 זָ֑ב Qal ptcp.act ms "Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead.
- Numbers 13:27 זָבַ֨ת Qal ptcp.act fs cs They told him, and said, We came to the land where you sent us; and surely it flows with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
- Numbers 14:8 זָבַ֥ת Qal ptcp.act fs cs If Yahweh delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
- Numbers 16:13 זָבַ֤ת Qal ptcp.act fs cs is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must needs make yourself also a prince over us?
- Numbers 16:14 זָבַ֨ת Qal ptcp.act fs cs Moreover you haven't brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: will you put out the eyes of these men? we won't come up.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
זוב — transliterated zûwb — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to flow.” The lexical range runs to 5 senses — “to flow” plus “gush”, “issue”, and “discharge”. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 41 verses — moderately common. More than a third of its appearances fall in Leviticus. It first appears in Exodus 3:8. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2100 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 41
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 41 distinct verses.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #864
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 864 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 41 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Leviticus 15 verses 37%
- Deuteronomy 6 verses 15%
- Numbers 5 verses 12%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 41 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 30 verses · 73%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 8 verses · 20%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 7%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Floweth 11×, Flowing 9×, Hath the issue 6×
- American Standard Version: Flowing 11×, Land flowing 6×, Gushed out 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Flowing 17×, Man with the discharge 6×, Discharge 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Flowing 13×, Flowing with 9×, One flowing 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2100 across 42 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2100 across 42 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2100 across 42 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2100 across 54 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 5 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to flow, gush, issue, discharge
(Qal)
- to flow, gush
- to die, pine away (figuratively)
- to flow (of issue from woman), have an issue, flux
- flowing (participle)
Word origin
[ זוּב ] vb. flow, gush
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
זוּב
- to flow, drip. Bets. 3ᵃ, a. fr. משקין שזָבוּ juice of fruits which flowed out (on a Holy Day). Ḥull. 27ᵃ (play on וז̇ב̇ח̇ת̇, Deut. XII, 21) ממקום שזָֹב ח̇ת̇הו from where (the blood) will flow (the jugular veins), there break (its life), v. חָתַת; a. fr.—V. זָב. e.g. Deuteronomy 12:21
זוֹב
- preced.) flux, gonorrhea, prolonged menstruation. Nidd. 35ᵇ ז׳ דומה the flux (of the gonorrhea) resembles &c. Ib. יולדה בז׳ one giving birth while suffering with flux; a. fr.—Men. 64ᵇ שמא בז׳ סיכנה perhaps she was in danger from a severe hemorrhage, v. זִיבָה a. זֵיבָה.
זוֹב ²
- Sabb. 110ᵇ (in an incantation) קום מזוֹבִיךְ (Ms. M. a. some ed. מזָבִיךְ) rise (be cured) from thy flux.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 18 distinct written forms H2100 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| זָבַ֥ת | Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Deuteronomy 6:3 | 13 |
| זָבַ֤ת | Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Deuteronomy 27:3 | 5 |
| הַ/זָּ֖ב | Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 15:4 | 4 |
| הַ/זָּ֑ב | Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 15:6 | 3 |
| וַ/יָּז֣וּבוּ | Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Psalms 78:20 | 2 |
| זָ֣ב | Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 49:4 | 2 |
| זָבַ֨ת | Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Numbers 13:27 | 2 |
| הַ/זָּ֔ב | Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 15:11 | 1 |
| הַ/זָּב֙ | Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 15:13 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/זָּב֙ | Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 15:33 | 1 |
| וַ/יָּזֻ֖בוּ | Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Isaiah 48:21 | 1 |
| זָ֑ב | Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Numbers 5:2 | 1 |
| זָ֔ב | Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 22:4 | 1 |
| זָ֠ב | Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Samuel 3:29 | 1 |
| זֹבָ֖/הּ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 15:19 | 1 |
| יָז֨וּבוּ֙ | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Lamentations 4:9 | 1 |
| יָזוּב֩ | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Leviticus 15:25 | 1 |
| תָז֖וּב | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Leviticus 15:25 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2100, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 40 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 41 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Exodus 3:8
- Leviticus 15:2
- Numbers 5:2
- Deuteronomy 6:3
- Joshua 5:6
- 2 Samuel 3:29
- Psalms 105:41
- Isaiah 48:21
- Jeremiah 11:5
- Lamentations 4:9
- Ezekiel 20:6
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
