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דָּוָה

dâvâh · H1738 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to menstruate

    Process by which a female discharges blood and other material from the lining of the uterus at intervals of about one lunar month; regarded as a cause of ritual uncleanness

    Examples

    Leviticus 12:2 “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: ‘When a woman gives birth and delivers a male child, then she shall be unclean for seven days; as she is in the days of her menstruation, she shall be unclean.

How it’s used In 1 role

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Who or what does itSubject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Semantic domains 1 entry
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דָּוָה denotes the bodily infirmity or discharge associated with a woman's menstrual impurity, tying the word to bodily excretion as governed by the purity laws.
Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

דָּוָהdâvâh · H1738דָּוֶה dâveh · H1739 · menstruous woman, menstrual discharge · 5×דַּוָּי davvây · H1742 · stunned, confused, hopeless · 3×דְּוַי dᵉvay · H1741 · illness · 2×מַדְוֶה madveh · H4064 · disease · 2×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1738. davah [דָּוָה] verb be ill, unwell (Late Hebrew ׳ד sorrowful, miserable, not in…
H1738. davah
[דָּוָה] verb be ill, unwell (Late Hebrew ׳ד sorrowful, miserable, not in physical sense; compare Arabic [] be ill; Ethiopic Assyrian perhaps derivatives di'û, illness ZimBP 96, 97; Aramaic דְּוָא דְּוִי, , , be sad) —
Qal Infinitive construct דְּוֺתָהּ נִדַּת כִּימֵי ֗֗֗ אִשָּׁה Lev 12:2.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Excrete1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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