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# זִרְמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2231

**issue** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

issue [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2231/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זִרְמָה: n.f. issue [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2231/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. issue (of semen virile), in fig. of the paramours of Jerusalem וְזִרְמַת סוּסִים זִרְמָתָם Ez 23:20.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[was the\] ejaculation (1); ejaculation (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 23:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.20/#tree)

וַֽתַּעְגְּבָ֔ה עַ֖ל פִּֽלַגְשֵׁיהֶ֑ם אֲשֶׁ֤ר בְּשַׂר־חֲמוֹרִים֙ בְּשָׂרָ֔ם וְזִרְמַ֥ת סוּסִ֖ים זִרְמָתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and she lusted on paramours their whom \[was.the\].flesh of.donkeys flesh their and \[was.the\].ejaculation of.horses ejaculation their

*JPS 1917:* And she doted upon concubinage with them, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2231/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).