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title: זוֹב — issue · The Tanakh dictionary
description: זוֹב (2101), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 13 times: issue. BDB 1906: n.m. issue. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# זוֹב

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«זוֹב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **issue** — 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:** 13 times · **Key:** 2101 · **BDB:** זוֹב

### Glosses

discharge (9); the.discharge (2); her.discharge (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

issue [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2101/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. issue [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2101/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** 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.)

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «זוֹב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2101/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 15:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.15.28/)

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וְאִֽם־טָהֲרָ֖ה מִזּוֹבָ֑הּ וְסָ֥פְרָה לָּ֛הּ שִׁבְעַ֥ת יָמִ֖ים וְאַחַ֥ר תִּטְהָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and if she.has.become.pure from discharge her and she.will.count for herself seven days and after she.will.be.pure

*JPS 1917:* But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.

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[Leviticus 15:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.15.2/)

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דַּבְּרוּ֙ אֶל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם אֲלֵהֶ֑ם אִ֣ישׁ אִ֗ישׁ כִּ֤י יִהְיֶה֙ זָ֣ב מִבְּשָׂר֔וֹ זוֹב֖וֹ טָמֵ֥א הֽוּא׃

*Word for word:* speak to the.people of.Israel and you.will.say to them a.man a.man (dm) he.will.be discharging from flesh his discharge his \[is\].unclean it

*JPS 1917:* Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When any man hath an issue out of his flesh, his issue is unclean.

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