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title: זוּב — flow · The Tanakh dictionary
description: זוּב (2100), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 42 times: flow. BDB 1906: vb. flow, gush. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# זוּב

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«זוּב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **flow** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 42 times · **Key:** 2100 · **BDB:** זוּב

### Glosses

flowing (18); discharging (10); \[is\].flowing (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

flow [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2100/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. flow, gush [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2100/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. flow, gush (NH id., Aramaic דּוּב, דִּיב, ܕܳܒ, all used often in sense 4 infr.; Arabic ذَابَ (med. و) melt, dissolve, flow)—only Impf. יָזוּב Lv 15:25 etc.; Pt. זָב Je 49:9 f. זָבָ֫ה Lv 15:19 etc.;— flow, gush (poet.), of water from the smitten rock ψ 78:20 (‖ שָׁטַף), 105:41 (‖ הָלַךְ), Is 48:21 (‖ נָזַל). Pt. freq. in זָבַת חָלָב וּדְבַשׁ (אֶרֶץ), mostly of promised land, Ex 3:8, 17; 13:5 (all J) 33:3 Nu 13:27; 14:8; 16:14 (all JE) Dt 6:3; 11:9; 26:9, 15; 27:3; 31:20 Jos 5:6 (D) Lv 20:24 (H) Je 11:5; 32:22 Ez 20:6, 15, of Egypt Nu 16:13; זָב עִמְקֵךְ Je 49:4 (fertile valley of Ammon). fig. flow away = pine away (from hunger) La 4:9. flow, of issue from woman (all P), Lv 15:25 יָזוּב זוֹב דָּמָהּ (v. זוֹב); especially have an issue (flux, gleet), of woman Lv 15:25 and 15:19 (תִּהְיֶה זָבָה); usually of man, 2 S 3:29 (‖ מְצֹרָע); elsewhere P, Lv 15:2 זָב מִבִּשָׂרוֹ; with cogn. acc. 15:33; ordinarily Pt. זָב one that has an issue Lv 15:4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 32 (all P), 22:4 (H; ‖ צָרוּעַ); also Nu 5:2 (P; ‖ id.)

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 41 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «זוּב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2100/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 105:41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.41/)

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פָּ֣תַח צ֭וּר וַיָּז֣וּבוּ מָ֑יִם הָ֝לְכ֗וּ בַּצִּיּ֥וֹת נָהָֽר׃

*Word for word:* he.opened a.rock and they.flowed.out waters they.went in the.dry regions a.river

*JPS 1917:* He opened the rock, and waters gushed out; they ran, a river in the dry places.

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[Leviticus 15:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.15.9/)

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וְכָל־הַמֶּרְכָּ֗ב אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִרְכַּ֥ב עָלָ֛יו הַזָּ֖ב יִטְמָֽא׃

*Word for word:* and every (the) saddle which he.will.ride on it the.\[one\] discharging it.will.be.unclean

*JPS 1917:* And what saddle soever he that hath the issue rideth upon shall be unclean.

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