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Strong's #2100 - זוּב
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- to flow, gush, issue, discharge
- (Qal)
- to flow, gush
- to die, pine away (figuratively)
- to flow (of issue from woman), have an issue, flux
- flowing (participle)
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1140) bz (זב ZB) AC: Issue CO: Yellow AB: ?: The pictograph z is an agricultural implement representing the idea of harvest or food. The b is a representation of the house. Combined these pictures mean "the food of the house". The main staple of the Hebrews was grain and is yellow in color. This grain was usually ground into a meal for making breads.
C) bza (אזב AZB) AC: ? CO: Hyssop AB: ?
cm ) bfza (אזוב AZWB) - Hyssop: From its yellowish color. KJV (10): hyssop - Strongs: H231 (אֵזוֹב)
D) baz (זאב ZAB) AC: ? CO: Wolf AB: ?
Nm ) baz (זאב ZAB) - Wolf: A yellowish colored animal. KJV (7): wolf - Strongs: H2061 (זְאֵב)
G) bez (זהב ZHB) AC: Gleam CO: Gold AB: ?
V) bez (זהב ZHB) - Gleam: The shine of gold. [df: bhu] KJV (1): (vf: Hophal) fine - Strongs: H6668 (צָהַב)
Nm ) bez (זהב ZHB) - Gold: [Hebrew and Aramaic] [df: bhd] KJV (412): gold, golden - Strongs: H1722 (דְּהַב), H2091 (זָהָב)
af1 ) ebezm (מזהבה MZHBH) - Gold: [df: hbhdm] KJV (1): golden city - Strongs: H4062 (מַדְהֵבָה)
cm ) bfez (זהוב ZHWB) - Yellow: [df: bhu] KJV (3): yellow - Strongs: H6669 (צָהֹב)
J) bfz (זוב ZWB) AC: Issue CO: Puss AB: ?: A yellow discharge.
V) bfz (זוב ZWB) - Issue: A flowing out of something. KJV (42): (vf: Paal, Participle) flow, issue, gush - Strongs: H2100 (זוּב)
Nm) bfz (זוב ZWB) - Issue: KJV (13): issue - Strongs: H2101 (זוֹב)
Adopted Roots:
- A2116 Dbz (Endow, Dowry)
- A2118 Lbz (Dwell, Dwelling)
- A2119 Nbz (Purchase)
- A2532 Bzo (Leave)
- A3007 Rbzc (Treasurer)
A3031 Bzbn
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Qal Imperfect יָזוּב Leviticus 15:25 etc.; Participle זָב Jeremiah 49:9f. זָבָ֫ה Leviticus 15:19 etc.; —
1 flow, gush (poetry), of water from the smitten rock Psalm 78:20 ("" שָׁטַף), Psalm 105:41 ("" הָלַךְ), Isaiah 48:21 ("" נָזַל).
2 Participle frequently in (אֶרֶץ) זָבַת חָלָב וּדְבַשׁ, always of promised land, Exodus 3:8,17; Exodus 13:5 (all J) Exodus 33:3; Numbers 13:27; Numbers 14:8; Numbers 16:13,14 (all J E) Deuteronomy 6:3; Deuteronomy 11:9; Deuteronomy 26:9,15; Deuteronomy 27:3; Deuteronomy 31:20; Joshua 5:6 (D) Leviticus 20:24 (H) Jeremiah 11:5; Jeremiah 32:22; Ezekiel 20:6,15 (in last two insert ארץᵐ5 Co); זָב עִמְקֵךְ Jeremiah 49:4 (fertile valley of Ammon).
3 figurative flow away = pine away (from hunger) Lamentations 4:9.
4 flow, of issue from woman (all P), Leviticus 15:25 יָזוּב זוֺב דָּמָהּ (see ווֺב); especially have an issue ( flux, gleet), of woman Leviticus 15:25; and Leviticus 15:19 (תִּהְיֶה זָבָה); usually of Prayer of Manasseh , 2 Samuel 3:29 ("" מְצֹרָע); elsewhere P, Leviticus 15:2 זָב מִבִּשָׂרוֺ; with cognate accusative Leviticus 15:33; ordinarily Participle זָב one that has an issue Leviticus 15:4,6,7,8,9,11,12,13,32 (all P), Leviticus 22:4 (H; "" צָרוּעַ); also Numbers 5:2 (P; "" id.)
זוּב (1) to flow, properly used of water. Psalms 78:20, 105:41 Isaiah 48:21. It is also often used of the female catamenia, Leviticus 15:25, or of seminal emission or gonorrhœa of males, Leviticus 15:2. To flow with any thing is also, by an idiom of the language, used of things or persons, in or from which any thing flows, as a woman in her menstrual flow, Leviticus 15:19 a man suffering from gonorrhœa, Leviticus 15:4, seq.; 22:4 Numbers 5:2; 2 Samuel 3:29 it is especially thus used of affluence and abundance, with acc. of the thing with which anything abounds. Exodus 3:8, אֶרֶץ זָבַת חָלָב וּדְבַשׁ “a land flowing with (i.e. abounding in) milk and honey.” Verse 17 13:5 33:3 Leviticus 20:24; Numbers 13:27, 14:8 16:14. [“Not followed by an object, Jeremiah 49:4, זָב עִמְקֵךְ ‘thy valley flows,’ sc. with blood.” Thes.]
(2) to flow away, to pine away, to die. Lamentations 4:9.
Aram. ܕܘܽܒ, דּוּב to flow, to flow away, to become liquid. Arab. ذَابَ to pine away with hunger or sickness. See under the root דָּאַב.