זוֹב
flow
also: issue, discharge, flux fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
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”).
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.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 12 times (92%)
- Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (8%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 13 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H2101 appears — 10 distinct verses across 1 book. 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.
Leviticus 10 verses
- Leviticus 15:2 זוֹב֖/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When any man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean.
- Leviticus 15:3 בְּ/זוֹב֑/וֹ זוֹב֗/וֹ מִ/זּוֹב֔/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms This shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body has stopped from his discharge, it is his uncleanness.
- Leviticus 15:13 מִ/זּוֹב֔/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms "'When he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.
- Leviticus 15:15 מִ/זּוֹבֽ/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms and the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh for his discharge.
- Leviticus 15:19 זָבָ֔ה Qal ptcp.act fs "'If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days: and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 15:25 ז֨וֹב ז֣וֹב n c ms cs n c ms cs "'If a woman has a discharge of her blood many days not in the time of her period, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her period; all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be as in the days of her period: she is unclean.
- Leviticus 15:26 זוֹבָ֔/הּ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs Every bed whereon she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her period: and everything whereon she sits shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her period.
- Leviticus 15:28 מִ/זּוֹבָ֑/הּ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs "'But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
- Leviticus 15:30 מִ/זּ֖וֹב prep + n c ms cs The priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before Yahweh for the uncleanness of her discharge.
- Leviticus 15:33 זוֹב֔/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms and of her who has her period, and of a man or woman who has a discharge, and of him who lies with her who is unclean.
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 (zôwb) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “flow.” Leviticus dominates its distribution — 10 of 10 verses. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 10 verses — uncommon. The lexical range runs to 3 senses — “flow” plus “issue”, “discharge”, and “flux”. Where the King James Version says “issue,” newer translations reach for “discharge” (Berean Standard Bible) and “flow” (unfoldingWord Literal Text); the renderings breakdown has the detail. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2101 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 →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,001
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,001 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Leviticus 10 verses 100%
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 10 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 10 verses · 100%
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: Issue 13×
- American Standard Version: Issue 13×
- Berean Standard Bible: Discharge 9×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Flow 9×, Flow of 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2101 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2101 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2101 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2101 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 3 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.
- a flow, issue, discharge, flux
- semen, discharge (venereal disease) (of men)
- issue, flux (of woman)
Word origin
n.m. issue (Arabic ذَوْبٌ fluid, liquid; NH זוֹב, Aramaic דּוֹבָא in specif. sense of Heb.);—issue, flux, always from genitals (cf. Di Lv 15:2); only P: of man or woman Lv 15:33;—of man Lv 15:2, 3, 3(×2), 13, 15; of woman Lv 15:19 (דָּם יִהְיֶה זֹבָהּ בִּבְשָׂרָהּ, of monthly period); also v 25(×2), 26, 28, 30 (of morbid issue of blood, sometimes connected with the other; cf. Mat 9:20 etc.)
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from זוב (zûwb) (H2100) — to flow.
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 12 distinct written forms H2101 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מִ/זּוֹב֔/וֹ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 15:3 | 2 |
| בְּ/זוֹב֑/וֹ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 15:3 | 1 |
| ז֣וֹב | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 15:25 | 1 |
| ז֨וֹב | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 15:25 | 1 |
| זָבָ֔ה | Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 15:19 | 1 |
| זוֹב֔/וֹ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 15:33 | 1 |
| זוֹב֖/וֹ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 15:2 | 1 |
| זוֹב֗/וֹ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 15:3 | 1 |
| זוֹבָ֔/הּ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 15:26 | 1 |
| מִ/זּ֖וֹב | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 15:30 | 1 |
| מִ/זּוֹבָ֑/הּ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 15:28 | 1 |
| מִ/זּוֹבֽ/וֹ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 15:15 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 10 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 10 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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