זָב
Meanings
Pa'al verb
1. to flow (often of bodily discharges originating in the private parts)
a. to have a discharge/issue (metonymic)
b. to be abundant with (figuratively)
2. to drip, trickle, dribble (Modern Israeli)
Pronunciation
zav
Examples7
מָה־תִּתְהַלְלִי בעֲמָקִים זָב עִמְקֵךְ הַבַּת הַשּׁוֹבֵבָה
Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing [with blood] valley, O backsliding daughter?
פָּתַח צוּר וְיָזוּבוּ מַיִם הָלְכוּ בַּצִּיּוֹת נָהָר׃
He opened the rock, and waters gushed out; they ran, a river in the dry places.
רַבִּי יִצְחָק אָמַר: גְּזֵרָה מִשּׁוּם מַשְׁקִין שֶׁזָּבוּ.
Rabbi Yitzhak says: "It's a [rabbinic] decree because of [fruit] juice that flows [out on Yom Tov]."
וְאִשָּׁה כִּי־יָזוּב זוֹב דָּמָהּ יָמִים רַבִּים בְּלֹא עֵת־נִדָּתָהּ
And if a woman have an issue of her blood [lit. her blood-issue flows] many days not in the time of her impurity …
אִם תִּדְקְרוּ אוֹתָנוּ – לֹא נָזוּב דָּם?
If you prick us, do we not bleed?
הַפֶּצַע זָב מֻגְלָה.
The wound discharged pus.