Filth
עִדָּהStrong’s H5708iddah (id-dah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Iddah is the Hebrew word usually translated “menstruation”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”
Meaning
- Menstruationfilthy rag, stained garment (fig. of best deeds of guilty people)
How it's translated
- menstruation 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
עִדָּה iddah · filth
1) menstruation 1a) filthy rag, stained garment (fig. of best deeds of guilty people)
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.