זוּב zuv

Hebrew word for “to flow” · Strong’s H2100 · used 42 times in 41 verses

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Meaning

: flowing; 1) to flow, gush, issue, discharge;

Senses in the lexicon

• to flow: flowing (24)
• to flow: discharge (17)
• to flow: waste away (1)

How it is translated

Glosses given for zuv in context, with how often each is used:

• flowing 21
• one discharging 10
• flowed out 3
• discharging 3
• will discharge 2
• one who has a discharge 1
• one who suffers a discharge 1
• flow away 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Leviticus 15 (13), Exodus 3 (2), Numbers 16 (2), Deuteronomy 26 (2), Ezekiel 20 (2), Exodus 13 (1), Exodus 33 (1), Leviticus 20 (1), Leviticus 22 (1), Numbers 5 (1)

Forms

• זבת 20
• הזב 9
• זב 5
• ויזובו 2
• ויזבו 1
• זבה 1
• יזוב 1
• תזוב 1
• והזב 1
• יזובו 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with zuv more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• חָלָב chalav “milk” 20
• דְּבַשׁ devash “honey” 20
• טָמֵא tame “to defile” 8
• זוֹב zov “discharge” 5
• שָׁבַע shava “to swear” 7
• מַי mayim “water” 9
• כָּבַס kavas “to wash” 5
• אָב av “father” 10
• רָחַץ rachats “to wash” 5
• טָמֵא tame “unclean” 5
• עֶרֶב erev “evening” 5
• נָגַע naga “to touch” 5

Key verses

The verses using zuv that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 3:8 — And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing…
• Exodus 3:17 — And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites,…
• Exodus 13:5 — And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which…
• Exodus 33:3 — Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.
• Leviticus 20:24 — But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your…
• Numbers 13:27 — And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
• Numbers 16:13 — Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself…
• Deuteronomy 31:20 — For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled…
• Isaiah 48:21 — And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters…
• Jeremiah 32:22 — And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
• Ezekiel 20:6 — In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey,…
• Ezekiel 20:15 — Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.