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# רִיר

Biblical Hebrew

**flow** — used 1 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

flow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b4_5d9_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רִיר: vb. flow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b4_5d9_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. flow (like slime);—(Aramaic רִירָא, ܪܺܝܪܳܐ saliva, spittle; cf. Arabic رَالَ slaver, slobber);— Pf. 3 ms. רָר בְּשָׂרוֹ אֶת־זוֹבוֹ Lv 15:3 his flesh (בָּשָׂר 3) flows with his issue.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it has secreted (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 15:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.15.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.15.3/#tree)

וְזֹ֛את תִּהְיֶ֥ה טֻמְאָת֖וֹ בְּזוֹב֑וֹ רָ֣ר בְּשָׂר֞וֹ אֶת־זוֹב֗וֹ אֽוֹ־הֶחְתִּ֤ים בְּשָׂרוֹ֙ מִזּוֹב֔וֹ טֻמְאָת֖וֹ הִֽוא׃

*Word for word:* and this it.will.be uncleanness his by discharge his it.has.secreted flesh his (et) discharge his or it.has.been.obstructed flesh his from discharge his uncleanness \[is\].his it

*JPS 1917:* And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e8_5b4_5d9_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b4_5d9_5e8/): 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).