nida · menstruation, impurity

What it means

nida (נִדָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “menstruation, impurity”.

Menstruation and the uncleanness that goes with it; so also something unclean or abhorrent. "Water of impurity" is the water for cleansing (Numbers 19:9).

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 woman's monthly bleeding and the uncleanness it brought.
2. Something defiling; or water for cleansing.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• menstruation ×15
• impurity ×14

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×13
• Numbers×6
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ezra×2
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×5
• Zechariah×1

• Leviticus 12:2

  “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: When a woman conceives and gives birth to a male, she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of the menstruation of her infirmity she shall be unclean.

• Leviticus 12:5

  But if she gives birth to a female, she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation; and she shall remain sixty days and six days in the blood of purification.

• 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 15:20

  And everything on which she lies during her menstruation shall be unclean, and everything on which she sits shall be unclean.

• Leviticus 15:24

  And if a man does lie with her and her menstruation comes on him, he shall be unclean seven days, and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.

• 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 15:33

  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 18:19

  And you shall not approach a woman during the menstruation of her uncleanness to uncover her nakedness.

• Leviticus 20:21

  And a man who takes his brother’s wife, it is impurity; he has uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.

• Numbers 19:9

  And a clean man shall gather up the ash of the cow and deposit it outside the camp in a clean place, and it shall be for the community of the sons of Israel to keep for the water of impurity; it is a sin offering.

• Numbers 19:13

  Everyone who touches a dead person, the body of a human being who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the dwelling of YHWH, and that person shall be cut off from Israel; because the water of impurity was not splashed on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still on him.

• Numbers 19:20

  But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, for he has defiled the sanctuary of YHWH; the water of impurity has not been splashed on him; he is unclean.

• Numbers 19:21

  And it shall be for them a statute forever. And the one who sprinkles the water of impurity shall wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water of impurity shall be unclean until the evening.

• Numbers 31:23

  everything that can go into the fire, you shall pass through the fire, and it shall be clean; only with the water of impurity it shall be purified. And everything that cannot go into the fire you shall pass through the water.

• 2 Chronicles 29:5

  and said to them, “Listen to me, Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of YHWH, the Elohim of your fathers, and carry out the impurity from the Holy Place.

• Ezra 9:11

  which you commanded by the hand of your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land which you are entering to possess it is a land of impurity through the impurity of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, with which they have filled it from one end to the other with their uncleanness.

• Lamentations 1:17

  Zion spreads out her hands; there is no one to comfort her; YHWH has commanded concerning Jacob that those around him be his adversaries; Jerusalem has become a menstrual impurity among them.

• Ezekiel 7:19

  Their silver into the streets they will throw, and their gold will be as impurity; their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of YHWH; their appetite they will not satisfy, and their insides they will not fill, for it was the stumbling block of their iniquity.

• Ezekiel 7:20

  And the beauty of its ornament they set for pride, and the images of their abominations, their detestable things, they made with it; therefore I have made it for them an impurity.

• Ezekiel 18:6

  he does not eat on the mountains, and does not lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and does not defile his neighbor’s wife, and does not approach a woman in her menstruation;

• Ezekiel 22:10

  The nakedness of their father they have uncovered in you; the one unclean in her menstruation they have humiliated in you.

• Ezekiel 36:17

  “Son of man, the house of Israel was living on their ground, and they defiled it by their way and by their deeds; like the uncleanness of menstruation was their way before me.

• Zechariah 13:1

  On that day there will be a fountain opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for impurity.

And 5 more times.