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# נִדָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5079

**impurity** — used 29 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

impurity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5079/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נִדָּה: n.f. impurity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5079/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. impurity (as abhorrent, shunned);—abs. נ׳ Ez 18:6 +; cstr. נִדַּת Lv 12:2 +; sf. נִדָּתָהּ v 5 +;—impurity (especially P and Ezek.): of ceremonial impurity, as union with brother’s wife, Lv 20:21; especially of menstruation Ez 18:6 (read אִשָּׁה בְּנִדָּתָהּ for MT א׳ נִדָּה 𝔖 Co), טְמֵאַת הַנּ׳ 22:10, cf. 36:17, נִדַּת דְּוֹתָהּ Lv 12:2, cf. v 5; 15:19, 20, 24, 25 (עֶת־נִדּ׳), v 25(×2), v 26 (מִשְׁכַּב נִדּ׳), v 26 (טֻמְאַת נִדּ׳), v 33; 18:19; of defilement contracted by contact with a corpse, מֵי (הַ)נִּדָּה water of impurity (i.e. to remove it, cf. Di) Nu 19:9, 13, 20, 21(×2); 31:23. fig. (with allusion to cerem. usage), impure thing, Ez 7:19, 20 (of gold), La 1:17 (of Jerus.); of idolatry, immorality, etc., 2 Ch 29:5 Ezr 9:11 (אֶרֶץ נִדָּה), v 11, Zc 13:1 (לְחַטַּאת וּלְנִדָּה).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 24 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: impurity (6); of impurity (5); her menstruous (4).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 22:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.22.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.22.10/#tree)

עֶרְוַת־אָ֖ב גִּלָּה־בָ֑ךְ טְמֵאַ֥ת הַנִּדָּ֖ה עִנּוּ־בָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].nakedness of.a.father someone.has.uncovered in you the.\[woman\].unclean of the.menstruation they.have.humiliated in you

*JPS 1917:* In thee have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in thee have they humbled her that was unclean in her impurity.

[Leviticus 18:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.18.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.18.19/#tree)

וְאֶל־אִשָּׁ֖ה בְּנִדַּ֣ת טֻמְאָתָ֑הּ לֹ֣א תִקְרַ֔ב לְגַלּ֖וֹת עֶרְוָתָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and to a.woman in the.menstruous.impurity her.uncleanness her not you.will.draw.near to uncover nakedness her

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5079.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5079/): 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).