זָב
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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
Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing [with blood] valley, O backsliding daughter?
He opened the rock, and waters gushed out; they ran, a river in the dry places.
Rabbi Yitzhak says: "It's a [rabbinic] decree because of [fruit] juice that flows [out on Yom Tov]."
And if a woman have an issue of her blood [lit. her blood-issue flows] many days not in the time of her impurity …
If you prick us, do we not bleed?
The wound discharged pus.