נִדָּה niddah

Hebrew word for “impurity” · Strong’s H5079 · used 29 times in 24 verses

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Meaning

1) impurity, filthiness, menstruous, set apart;

How it is translated

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

• impurity 11
• menstruous impurity 10
• impure thing 3
• menstruation 3
• menstrous impurity 1
• like menstruous impurity 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Leviticus 15 (6), Numbers 19 (4), Leviticus 12 (2), Ezekiel 7 (2), Leviticus 18 (1), Leviticus 20 (1), Numbers 31 (1), 2 Chronicles 29 (1), Ezra 9 (1), Lamentations 1 (1)

Forms

• נדה 7
• נדתה 6
• הנדה 5
• בנדתה 3
• לנדה 3
• בנדת 2
• נדת 1
• כנדתה 1
• ולנדה 1

Words used with it

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

• טָמֵא tame “to defile” 10
• טֻמְאָה tumah “uncleanness” 6
• טָמֵא tame “unclean” 6
• זוֹב zov “discharge” 4
• אִשָּׁה ishshah “woman” 6
• שָׁכַב shakhav “to lie down” 4
• עֶרְוָה ervah “nakedness” 3
• זוּב zuv “to flow” 3
• מַי mayim “water” 5
• יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 5
• נָגַע naga “to touch” 3
• גָּלָה galah “to reveal” 3

Key verses

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

• Leviticus 12:2 — Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of…
• Leviticus 15:19 — And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the…
• Numbers 19:13 — Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from…
• 2 Chronicles 29:5 — And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of…
• Ezra 9:11 — Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people…
• Lamentations 1:17 — Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him:…
• Ezekiel 7:19 — They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the…
• Ezekiel 7:20 — As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have…
• Ezekiel 18:6 — And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour’s wife, neither…
• Ezekiel 22:10 — In thee have they discovered their fathers’ nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
• Ezekiel 36:17 — Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness…
• Zechariah 13:1 — In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.

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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.