haima · blood

What it means

haima (αἷμα) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “blood”.

Also life poured out.

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. The red fluid that runs through the bodies of people and animals.
2. Shed blood: a death, or the blood of a sacrifice.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Word study

Blood; also life poured out and, in phrases, violent death or the guilt for it. Thayer adds blood shed in a sacrifice, blood as the seat of life, and “flesh and blood”, human nature.

• The body's blood: the flow of blood Mark 5:25
• “Flesh and blood”: the human being Matthew 16:17
• Bloodguilt: “His blood be on us” Matthew 27:25
• “My blood of the covenant” Matthew 26:28John 6:54
• Blood in sacrifice and in forgiveness Hebrews 9:22Romans 5:9

Historical and cultural background

The apostles ask the believers from the nations to abstain “from blood” (Acts 15:20), as the law of Moses forbade (Leviticus 17:10-12). Hebrews 9:22 sums up the law: “according to the law almost everything is purified with blood”.

How we translate it

“Blood” 96 times, “bleeding” 1. In John 1:13, where the Greek has the plural (“not of bloods”), English says “not of blood”.

How it is translated

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

• blood ×96
• bleeding ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×11
• Mark×3
• Luke×8
• John×6
• Acts×11
• Romans×3
• 1 Corinthians×4
• Galatians×1
• Ephesians×3
• Colossians×1
• Hebrews×21
• 1 Peter×2
• 1 John×4
• Revelation×19

• Matthew 16:17

  And Jesus answered and said to him, “Happy are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

• Matthew 23:30

  and you say, ‘If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in the blood of the prophets.’

• Matthew 23:35

  so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

• Matthew 26:28

  for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

• Matthew 27:4

  saying, “I have sinned by handing over innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You will see to it.”

• Matthew 27:6

  But the high priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.”

• Matthew 27:8

  Therefore that field has been called Field of Blood to this day.

• Matthew 27:24

  When Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this blood; you will see to it.”

• Matthew 27:25

  And all the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

• Mark 5:25

  And a woman who had had a flow of blood for twelve years,

• Mark 5:29

  And at once the source of her bleeding dried up, and she knew in her body that she was healed of the affliction.

• Mark 14:24

  And he said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.

• Luke 8:43

  And a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on doctors and could not be healed by anyone,

• Luke 8:44

  came up behind him and touched the fringe of his cloak, and immediately her flow of blood stopped.

• Luke 11:50

  so that the blood of all the prophets, shed since the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation,

• Luke 11:51

  from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the house; yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.

• Luke 13:1

  Now there were present at that very time some who were reporting to him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

• Luke 22:20

  And the cup likewise after they had eaten, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

• Luke 22:44

  And being in anguish, he was praying more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

• John 1:13

  who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of a man, but of God.

• John 6:53

  So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves.

• John 6:54

  Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

• John 6:55

  For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

• John 6:56

  Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.

• John 19:34

  But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once blood and water came out.

• Acts 1:19

  And it became known to all those who live in Jerusalem, so that that field was called in their own language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.

• Acts 2:19

  And I will give wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below: blood and fire and vapor of smoke.

• Acts 2:20

  The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.

• Acts 5:28

  saying, “We strictly ordered you not to teach in this name, and look, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring upon us the blood of this man.”

• Acts 15:20

  but should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from sexual immorality and from what is strangled and from blood.

• Acts 15:29

  that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

• Acts 18:6

  But when they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothes and said to them, “Your blood be on your head! I am clean. From now on I will go to the nations.”

• Acts 20:26

  Therefore I testify to you on this day that I am clean from the blood of all,

• Acts 20:28

  Pay attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

• Acts 21:25

  But as for the nations who have believed, we wrote, having decided that they should guard themselves against both what has been sacrificed to idols and blood and what is strangled and sexual immorality.”

• Acts 22:20

  And when the blood of Stephen, your witness, was being shed, I also was standing by and approving and guarding the garments of those who were killing him.’

• Romans 3:15

  their feet are swift to shed blood;

• Romans 3:25

  whom God put forward as a cover of expiation through faith, in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness, because of the passing over of the sins committed beforehand

• Romans 5:9

  Much more, then, having now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from the wrath.

• 1 Corinthians 10:16

  The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of the Messiah? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of the Messiah?

And 57 more times.