zov · discharge

What it means

zov (זוֹב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “discharge”.

A fluid that flows from the body, from disease or naturally.

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. A fluid from the body that made one unclean.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• discharge ×12
• blood ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 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 15:3

  And this shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge or his body is blocked from his discharge, it is his uncleanness.

• 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 15:15

  And the priest shall offer them, one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering; and the priest shall make expiation for him before YHWH for his discharge.

• 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 15:26

  Every bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her like the bed of her menstruation; and every object on which she sits shall be unclean, like the uncleanness of her menstruation.

• Leviticus 15:28

  And if she becomes clean from her discharge, she shall count for herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.

• Leviticus 15:30

  And the priest shall offer the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering; and the priest shall make expiation for her before YHWH for the discharge of her uncleanness.

• 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.

And 3 more times.