To bleed
αἱμορροέωStrong’s G0131ahimorroeō
Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament
In short
Ahimorroeō is the Greek word usually translated “having a flux of blood”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.
“And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:”
Meaning
Usually translated “having a flux of blood”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- having a flux of blood 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Matthew 1
1 book in all.
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Greek dictionary
αἱμορροέω ahimorroeō · to bleed
αἱμορροέω, (αἷμα, ῥέω), [in LXX: Lev.15:33 (דָּוֶה) * ;] to lose blood, suffer from a flow of blood (Hipp.): Mat.9:20.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bleed” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BLEED, verb intransitive
preterit tense and participle passive bled.
- To lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds.
- To die a violent death, or by slaughter.
- To issue forth, or drop as blood, from an incision; to lose sap, gum or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds.
All definitions and other forms of “bleed”
BLEED, verb transitive
To let blood; to take blood from, by opening a vein.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.