Discharge
זוֹבStrong’s H2101zov
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zov is the Hebrew word usually translated “discharge his”, “from discharge his” and “discharge her”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean.”
Meaning
- A flow, issue, discharge, fluxsemen, discharge (venereal disease) (of men) · issue, flux (of woman)
How it's translated
- discharge his 3
- from discharge his 3
- discharge her 2
- discharge of 2
- by discharge his 1
- from discharge her 1
- from discharge of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 10
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 15:3And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness.
- Leviticus 15:13And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.
- Leviticus 15:15And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD for his issue.
- Leviticus 15:19And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.
- Leviticus 15:25And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.
- Leviticus 15:26Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation.
Hebrew dictionary
זוֹב zov · discharge
1) a flow, issue, discharge, flux 1a) semen, discharge (venereal disease) (of men) 1b) issue, flux (of woman)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “discharge” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DISCHARGE, verb transitive
- To unload, as a ship; to take out, as a cargo; applied both to the ship and the loading.
- To free from any load or burden; to throw off or exonerate; as, discharge of business.
- To throw off a load or charge; to let fly; to shoot; applied to fire-arms; as, to dis-charge a pistol or a cannon; or to discharge a ball or grape-shot.
- To pay; as, to discharge a debt, a bond, a note.
All definitions and other forms of “discharge”
- To send away, as a creditor by payment of what is due to him.
- To free from claim or demand; to give an acquittance to, or a receipt in full, as to a debtor.
- To free from an obligation; as, to discharge a man from further duty or service; to discharge a surety.
- To clear from an accusation or crime; to acquit; to absolve; to set free; with of; as, to discharge a man of all blame.
- To throw off or out; to let fly; to give vent to; as, to discharge a horrible oath; to discharge fury or vengeance.
- To perform or execute, as a duty or office considered as a charge.
- To divest of an office or employment; to dismiss from service; as, to discharge a steward or a servant; to discharge a soldier or seaman; to discharge a jury.
- To dismiss; to release; to send away from any business or appointment.
- To emit or send out; as, an ulcer discharges pus; a pipe discharges water.
- To release; to liberate from confinement; as, to discharge a prisoner.
- To put away; to remove; to clear from; to destroy.
DISCHARGE, verb intransitive
To break up.
DISCHARGE, noun
- An unloading, as of a ship; as the discharge of a cargo.
- A throwing out; vent; emission; applied to a fluid, a flowing or issuing out, or a throwing out; as the discharge of water from a spring, or from a spout; applied to fire-arms, an explosion; as a discharge of cannon.
- That which is thrown out; matter emitted; as a thin serous discharge; a purulent discharge
- Dismission from office or service; or the writing which evidences the dismission.
- Release from obligation, debt or penalty; or the writing which is evidence of it; an acquittance; as, the debtor has a discharge
- Absolution from a crime or accusation; acquittance.
- Ransom; liberation; price paid for deliverance.
- Performance; execution; applied to an office, trust or duty.
- Liberation; release from imprisonment or other confinement.
- Exemption; escape.“There is no discharge in that war” Ecclesiastes 8:8
- Payment, as of a debt.
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.