Lexical Definition

‎זוּב‎ zûwb (zoob) to flow: flowing ^H:V
a primitive root

flow, gush out, have a (running) issue, pine away, run.

• to flow freely (as water), i.e. (specifically) to have a (sexual) flux
• figuratively, to waste away
• also to overflow

1) to flow, gush, issue, discharge
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to flow, gush
1a2) to die, pine away (fig.)
1a3) to flow (of issue from woman), have an issue, flux
1a4) flowing (participle)

See Greek: ῥέω · ῥύσις

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎זוּב‎] verb flow, gush (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic ‎דּוּב‎, ‎דִּיב‎, , all used often in sense 4 below; Arabic (medial ) melt, dissolve, flow) — only Qal Imperfect ‎יָזוּב‎ Lev 15:25 etc.; Participle ‎זָב‎ Jer 49:9f. ‎זָבָ֫ה‎ Lev 15:19 etc.; —

1. flow, gush (poetry), of water from the smitten rock Ps 78:20 (|| ‎שָׁטַף‎), Ps 105:41 (|| ‎הָלַךְ‎), Isa 48:21 (|| ‎נָזַל‎).

2. Participle frequently in ‎(אֶרֶץ) זָבַת חָלָב וּדְבַשׁ‎, always of promised land, Exod 3:8; Exod 3:17; Exod 13:5 (all J) Exod 33:3; Num 13:27; Num 14:8; Num 16:13; Num 16:14 (all J E) Deut 6:3; Deut 11:9; Deut 26:9; Deut 26:15; Deut 27:3; Deut 31:20; Josh 5:6 (D) Lev 20:24 (H) Jer 11:5; Jer 32:22; Ezek 20:6; Ezek 20:15 (in last two insert ‎ארץ‎ ᵐ5 Co); ‎זָב עִמְקֵךְ‎ Jer 49:4 (fertile valley of Ammon).

3. figurative flow away = pine away (from hunger) Lam 4:9.

4. flow, of issue from woman (all P), Lev 15:25 ‎יָזוּב זוֺב דָּמָהּ‎ (see ‎ווֺב‎); especially have an issue (flux, gleet), of woman Lev 15:25 and Lev 15:19 (‎תִּהְיֶה זָבָה‎); usually of man, 2Sam 3:29 (|| ‎מְצֹרָע‎); elsewhere P, Lev 15:2 ‎זָב מִבִּשָׂרוֺ‎; with cognate accusative Lev 15:33 ordinarily Participle ‎זָב‎ one that has an issue Lev 15:4; Lev 15:6; Lev 15:7; Lev 15:8; Lev 15:9; Lev 15:11; Lev 15:12; Lev 15:13; Lev 15:32 (all P), Lev 22:4 (H; || ‎צָרוּעַ‎); also Num 5:2 (P; || id.)

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