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Discharge

זִרְמָהStrong’s H2231

zirmah (zir-mah)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Zirmah is the Hebrew word usually translated “ejaculation of” and “ejaculation their”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.”
Ezekiel 23:20 KJV
Meaning
  1. Flow, issueissue (of seminal discharge)
How it's translated
  • and ejaculation of 1
  • ejaculation their 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Ezekiel 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    זִרְמָה zirmah · discharge

    1) flow, issue 1a) issue (of seminal discharge)

    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

    1. To unload, as a ship; to take out, as a cargo; applied both to the ship and the loading.
    2. To free from any load or burden; to throw off or exonerate; as, discharge of business.
    3. 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.
    4. To pay; as, to discharge a debt, a bond, a note.
    All definitions and other forms of “discharge”
    1. To send away, as a creditor by payment of what is due to him.
    2. To free from claim or demand; to give an acquittance to, or a receipt in full, as to a debtor.
    3. To free from an obligation; as, to discharge a man from further duty or service; to discharge a surety.
    4. To clear from an accusation or crime; to acquit; to absolve; to set free; with of; as, to discharge a man of all blame.
    5. To throw off or out; to let fly; to give vent to; as, to discharge a horrible oath; to discharge fury or vengeance.
    6. To perform or execute, as a duty or office considered as a charge.
    7. 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.
    8. To dismiss; to release; to send away from any business or appointment.
    9. To emit or send out; as, an ulcer discharges pus; a pipe discharges water.
    10. To release; to liberate from confinement; as, to discharge a prisoner.
    11. To put away; to remove; to clear from; to destroy.

    DISCHARGE, verb intransitive

    To break up.

      DISCHARGE, noun

      1. An unloading, as of a ship; as the discharge of a cargo.
      2. 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.
      3. That which is thrown out; matter emitted; as a thin serous discharge; a purulent discharge
      4. Dismission from office or service; or the writing which evidences the dismission.
      5. Release from obligation, debt or penalty; or the writing which is evidence of it; an acquittance; as, the debtor has a discharge
      6. Absolution from a crime or accusation; acquittance.
      7. Ransom; liberation; price paid for deliverance.
      8. Performance; execution; applied to an office, trust or duty.
      9. Liberation; release from imprisonment or other confinement.
      10. Exemption; escape.“There is no discharge in that war” Ecclesiastes 8:8
      11. 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.