STRONGS NUMBER H5079


Word Summary
niddah: impurity
Original Word: נִדָּה
Transliteration: niddah
Phonetic Spelling: (nid-daw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: impurity
Meaning: rejection, impurity, personal, moral
Strong's Concordance
far, filthiness, flowers, menstruous woman, put apart, removed woman

From nadad; properly, rejection; by implication, impurity, especially personal (menstruation) or moral (idolatry, incest) -- X far, filthiness, X flowers, menstruous (woman), put apart, X removed (woman), separation, set apart, unclean(-ness, thing, with filthiness).

see HEBREW nadad

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5079. niddah

נִדָּהnoun feminine impurity (as abhorrent, shunned); — absolute ׳נEzekiel 18:6 +; construct נִדַּתLeviticus 12:2 +; suffix נִדָּתָהּ12:5 +; — impurity (especially P and Ezekiel):

1 of ceremonial impurity, as union with brother's wife, Leviticus 20:21; especially of menstruation Ezekiel 18:6 (read בְּנִדָּתָהּ אִשָּׁה‎ for ᵑ6 ׳א נִדָּה ᵑ0‎ Co), הַנּ ׳טְמֵאַת22:10, compare 36:17, דְּוֺתָהּ נִדַּתLeviticus 12:2, compare 12:5; 15:19-20, 24, 25 (׳עֶתנִֿדּ‎), (3 t. in verse), 15:26 (נִדּ ׳מִשְׁכַּב‎), 15:26 (נִדּ ׳טֻמְאַת‎), 15:33; 18:19; of defilement contracted by contact with a corpse, (הַ)נִּדָּה מֵיwater of impurity (i.e. to remove it, compare Di) Numbers 19:9, 13, 20, 21 (twice in verse); 31:23.

2 figurative (with allusion to cerem. usage), impure thing, Ezekiel 7:19-20, (of gold), Lamentations 1:17 (of Jerusalem); of idolatry, immorality, etc., 2 Chronicles 29:5; Ezra 9:11 (נִדָּה אֶרֶץ‎), 9:11, Zechariah 13:1 (וּלְנִדָּה לְחַטַּאת‎).