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To flow

זוּבStrong’s H2100

zuv

Appears in 41 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Zuv is the Hebrew word usually translated “flowing of”, “discharging” and “flowed out”. It appears in 41 verses of the Old Testament.

“And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.”
Exodus 3:8 KJV
Meaning
  1. To flow, gush, issue, discharge(Qal)
How it's translated
  • flowing of 20
  • the discharging 9
  • discharging 3
  • and they flowed out 3
  • it will discharge 1
  • she will discharge 1
  • and the discharging 1
  • has a discharge 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Leviticus 15
  • Deuteronomy 6
  • Numbers 5
  • Exodus 4
  • Jeremiah 3
  • Psalms 2

11 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 41 verses, by book
Joshua 1
5:6
2 Samuel 1
3:29
Psalms 2
78:20105:41
Isaiah 1
48:21
Jeremiah 3
11:532:2249:4
Lamentations 1
4:9
Ezekiel 2
20:620:15
Hebrew dictionary

זוּב zuv · to flow

: flowing 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)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “flow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

FLOW, verb intransitive

[Latin fluo, contracted from fugo, for it forms fluri, fuctum. In one case, the word would agree with the root of blow, Latin flo; in the other, with the root of fly.]

  1. To move along an inclined plane, or on descending ground, by the operation of gravity, and with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid.
  2. To melt; to become liquid.“That the mountains might flow down at they presence” Isaiah 64:1
  3. To proceed; to issue.
  4. To abound; to have in abundance.“In that day the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk” Joel 3:18
All definitions and other forms of “flow”
  1. To be full; to be copious; as flowing cups or goblets.
  2. To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperity; as a flowing period; flowing numbers.
  3. To be smooth, as composition or utterance.
  4. To hang loose and waving; as a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
  5. To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
  6. To move in the arteries and veins of the body; to circulate, as blood.
  7. To issue, as rays or beams of light.
  8. To move in a stream, as air.

FLOW, verb transitive

To cover with water; to overflow; to inundate. The low grounds along the river are annually flowed.

    FLOW, noun

    1. A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as a flow of water; a flow of blood.
    2. A current of water with a swell or rise; as the flow and ebb of tides.
    3. A stream of any thing; as a flow of wealth into the country.
    4. Abundance; copiousness with action; as a flow of spirits.
    5. A stream of diction, denoting abundance of words at command and facility of speaking; volubility.
    6. Free expression or communication of generous feelings and sentiments.

    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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.