נִדָּה
niddâh · nid-daw'
properly, rejection; by implication, impurity, especially personal (menstruation) or moral (idolatry, incest)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H5074 (נָדַד);
properly, rejection; by implication, impurity, especially personal (menstruation) or moral (idolatry, incest)
- properly, rejection
- by implication, impurity, especially personal (menstruation) or moral (idolatry, incest)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [idiom] far, filthiness, [idiom] flowers, menstruous (woman), put apart, [idiom] removed (woman), separation, set apart, unclean(-ness, thing, with filthiness).
Letters
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the seed, life continuing › the doorway, the way in › to reveal, behold
The seed, life continuing of the doorway, the way in that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נִדָּה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
29 occurrences · 29 OT · 0 NT · 25 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of separation6 · 21%
- of her separation5 · 17%
- of the separation1 · 3%
- as in her separation1 · 3%
- she shall be put apart1 · 3%
- upon in her separation1 · 3%
- and her flowers1 · 3%
- of her flowers1 · 3%
- as long as she is put apart1 · 3%
- it is an unclean thing1 · 3%
- the filthiness1 · 3%
- it, is an unclean1 · 3%
- with the filthiness1 · 3%
- is as a menstruous woman1 · 3%
- shall be removed1 · 3%
- it far1 · 3%
- to a menstruous1 · 3%
- her that was set apart1 · 3%
- of a removed woman1 · 3%
- and for uncleanness1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.