Filth
נִידָהStrong’s H5206nidah (ni-dah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Nidah is the Hebrew word usually translated “impurity”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.”
Meaning
- Impure, filthiness, impurity
How it's translated
- impurity 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Lamentations 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
נִידָה nidah · filth
impure, filthiness, impurity
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “filth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FILTH, noun
[See Foul and Defile.]
- Dirt; any foul matter; any thing that soils or defiles; waste matter; nastiness.
- Corruption; pollution; any thing that sullies or defiles the moral character.
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.