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זוּב zûwb — to flow freely (as water), i.e. (specifically) to have a (sexual) flux

pronounced zoob · Strong's H2100 · 41 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Qal (Pa'al)

Translated in the KJV as flow, gush out, have a issue, pine away, run.

a primitive root; to flow freely (as water), i.e. (specifically) to have a (sexual) flux; figuratively, to waste away; also to overflow.

zûwb in each stem

Qal (Pa'al) 41×

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Participle (active) 35Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Wayyiqtol 3

זָבַ֥ת Exod 3:8 Participle (active), feminine singular

And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. (KJV)

זָבַ֥ת Exod 3:17 Participle (active), feminine singular

And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey. (KJV)

זָבַ֥ת Exod 13:5 Participle (active), feminine singular

And it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month. (KJV)

What the stems mean

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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