zuv · flow, have a discharge

What it means

zuv (זוּב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “flow, have a discharge”.

Flow, run freely (of water). Said of the body, have a discharge (Leviticus 15). "A land flowing with milk and honey" means a very fertile land.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. For water to run; a land rich in milk and honey.
2. To have a bodily emission causing uncleanness.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• flowing ×19
• man with the discharge ×9
• discharge ×7
• flowed ×2
• flows ×2
• gushed out ×1
• one who has ×1
• waste away ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×4
• Leviticus×16
• Numbers×5
• Deuteronomy×6
• Joshua×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×3
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×2

• Exodus 3:8

  And I have come down to rescue them from the hand of Egypt and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

• Exodus 3:17

  and I have said: I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’

• Exodus 13:5

  When YHWH brings you to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall perform this service in this month.

• Exodus 33:3

  Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up in your midst, for you are a stubborn people, lest I consume you on the way.”

• Leviticus 15:2

  “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them: When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.

• Leviticus 15:4

  Every bed on which the man with the discharge lies shall be unclean, and every object on which he sits shall be unclean.

• Leviticus 15:6

  And whoever sits on the object on which the man with the discharge sat shall wash his garments and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 15:7

  And whoever touches the body of the man with the discharge shall wash his garments and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 15:8

  And if the man with the discharge spits on one who is clean, he shall wash his garments and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 15:9

  And any saddle on which the man with the discharge rides shall be unclean.

• Leviticus 15:11

  And anyone whom the man with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water shall wash his garments and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 15:12

  And a vessel of clay that the man with the discharge touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.

• Leviticus 15:13

  And when the man with the discharge becomes clean from his discharge, he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his garments and bathe his body in living water, and he shall be clean.

• Leviticus 15:19

  And when a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her body is blood, she shall be in her menstruation seven days, and anyone who touches her shall be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 15:25

  And when a woman has a discharge of her blood for many days not at the time of her menstruation, or when she has a discharge beyond her menstruation, all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness she shall be as in the days of her menstruation: she is unclean.

• Leviticus 15:32

  This is the instruction for the man with the discharge and for the one from whom an emission of semen goes out so that he becomes unclean by it,

• Leviticus 15:33

  and for the woman who is ill with her menstruation, and for the one who has his discharge, whether male or female, and for a man who lies with an unclean woman.

• Leviticus 20:24

  But I said to you, ‘You shall possess their ground, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.’ I am YHWH your Elohim, who have separated you from the peoples.

• Leviticus 22:4

  No man of the offspring of Aaron who is leprous or has a discharge may eat of the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything unclean by a dead person, or a man from whom an emission of semen goes out,

• Numbers 5:2

  “Command the sons of Israel to send out of the camp everyone with leprosy, and everyone with a discharge, and everyone who is unclean through a corpse.

• Numbers 13:27

  And they told him, and said, “We came to the land to which you sent us, and indeed it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

• Numbers 14:8

  If YHWH delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey.

• Numbers 16:13

  Is it too little that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness, that you should make yourself a prince over us, even make yourself a prince?

• Numbers 16:14

  Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, or given us an inheritance of field and vineyard. Will you gouge out the eyes of those men? We will not come up!”

• Deuteronomy 6:3

  Hear, Israel, and be careful to do it, so that it may go well with you and so that you may multiply greatly, as YHWH, the Elohim of your fathers, has spoken to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

• Deuteronomy 11:9

  and so that you may prolong your days on the land that YHWH swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.

• Deuteronomy 26:9

  And he brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

• Deuteronomy 26:15

  Look down from your holy dwelling, from the heavens, and bless your people Israel and the ground that you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.”

• Deuteronomy 27:3

  And you shall write on them all the words of this instruction when you cross, so that you may enter into the land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as YHWH, the Elohim of your fathers, has spoken to you.

• Deuteronomy 31:20

  For I will bring them into the land that I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they will eat and be satisfied and grow fat, and they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant.

• Joshua 5:6

  For forty years the sons of Israel walked in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, had come to an end, who did not listen to the voice of YHWH; to whom YHWH swore that he would not let them see the land that YHWH had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

• 2 Samuel 3:29

  May it fall on the head of Joab and on all his father’s house; and may there not be cut off from the house of Joab one who has a discharge or a leper or one who leans on a staff or one who falls by the sword or one who lacks bread.”

• Psalms 78:20

  Look, he struck the rock and waters flowed, and streams overflowed; can he also give bread, or provide meat for his people?”

• Psalms 105:41

  He opened the rock, and waters gushed out; they flowed in the dry places like a river.

• Isaiah 48:21

  And they did not thirst when he led them through the desolate places; water from the rock he made flow for them; and he split the rock, and the water flowed.

• Jeremiah 11:5

  so as to fulfill the oath that I swore to your fathers to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day.’” And I answered and said: “Amen, YHWH.”

• Jeremiah 32:22

  and you gave them this land that you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

• Jeremiah 49:4

  Why do you boast of the valleys? Your valley is flowing away, wayward daughter, who trusts in her treasures: “Who will come against me?”

• Lamentations 4:9

  Better off were those slain by the sword than those slain by hunger, for they waste away, pierced through for want of the produce of the field.

• Ezekiel 20:6

  on that day I raised my hand to them to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, it is the jewel of all the lands.

And 2 more times.