Impurity
נִדָּהStrong’s H5079niddah (nid-dah)
Appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Niddah is the Hebrew word usually translated “impurity”, “menstruous impurity her” and “impure thing”. It appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament.
“In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.”
Meaning
- Impurity, filthiness, menstruous, set apartimpurity · impure thing (fig.)
How it's translated
- impurity 8
- menstruous impurity her 6
- in menstruous impurity her 3
- an impure thing 2
- menstruation 2
- menstrous impurity of 1
- like menstruous impurity her 1
- in menstruous impurity of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 10
- Numbers 5
- Ezekiel 5
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Ezra 1
- Lamentations 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 12:2Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.
- Leviticus 12:5But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.
- 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 15:20And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.
- Leviticus 15:24And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean.
- 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.
Hebrew dictionary
נִדָּה niddah · impurity
1) impurity, filthiness, menstruous, set apart 1a) impurity 1a1) of ceremonial impurity 1a2) of menstruation 1b) impure thing (fig.) 1b1) of idolatry, immorality
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.