Hebrew noun (feminine) · H5079
נִדָּה
niddahnid-daw'
impurity
29 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: niddâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5079is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 25spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5079
properly, rejection; by implication, impurity, especially personal (menstruation) or moral (idolatry, incest)
The King James renders it: [idiom] far, filthiness, [idiom] flowers, menstruous (woman), put apart, [idiom] removed (woman), separation, set apart, unclean(-ness, thing, with filthiness).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
niddah is rendered "impurity". It stands 29 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Thirteen of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 12:2“Say to the Israelites, ‘A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be unclean for seven days, as she is during the days of her menstruation.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-five different ways.
The first use
“Say to the Israelites, ‘A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be unclean for seven days, as she is during the days of her menstruation.
Leviticus 12:2נִדַּ֥ת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Thirteen of the word's twenty-nine uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- impurity6
- menstruous impurity her6
- in menstruous impurity her3
- into an impure thing3
- the impurity3
- the menstruation2
- and for impurity1
- by impurity of1
- in menstruous impurity of1
- like menstruous impurity her1
- menstrous impurity of1
- menstruation1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 29, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
25 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- נִדָּ֖ה3
- הַנִּדָּ֔ה2
- הַנִּדָּ֖ה2
- בְּנִדַּ֣ת1
- בְּנִדַּ֖ת1
- בְנִדָּתָ֔הּ1
- בְּנִדָּתָ֖הּ1
- בְּנִדָּתָ֔הּ1
- הַנִּדָּה֙1
- וּלְנִדָּֽה׃1
- כְּנִדָּתָ֑הּ1
- לְנִדָּ֖ה1
and 13 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular7HNcfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular6HNcfsc/Sp3fs
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular5HTd/Ncfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular4HR/Ncfsc/Sp3fs
- preposition + noun · feminine singular3HR/Ncfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncfsc
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular1HC/R/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfsc
Leviticus
thirteen uses
“Say to the Israelites, ‘A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be unclean for seven days, as she is during the days of her menstruation.
- נִדַּ֥תnidatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: menstrous impurity of
If, however, she gives birth to a daughter, the woman will be unclean for two weeks as she is during her menstruation. Then she must continue in purification from her bleeding for sixty-six days.
- כְּנִדָּתָ֑הּkenidatahpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: like menstruous impurity her
When a woman has a discharge consisting of blood from her body, she will be unclean due to her menstruation for seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.
- בְנִדָּתָ֔הּvenidatahpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: in menstruous impurity her
Anything on which she lies or sits during her menstruation will be unclean,
- בְּנִדָּתָ֖הּbenidatahpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: in menstruous impurity her
If a man lies with her and her menstrual flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days, and any bed on which he lies will become unclean.
- נִדָּתָהּ֙nidatahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: menstruous impurity her
When a woman has a discharge of her blood for many days at a time other than her menstrual period, or if it continues beyond her period, she will be unclean all the days of her unclean discharge, just as she is during the days of her menstruation.
- נִדָּתָ֔הּnidatahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: menstruous impurity her
- נִדָּתָ֑הּnidatahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: menstruous impurity her
- נִדָּתָ֛הּnidatahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: menstruous impurity her
Any bed on which she lies or any furniture on which she sits during the days of her discharge will be unclean, like her bed during her menstrual period.
- נִדָּתָ֖הּnidatahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: menstruous impurity her
- נִדָּתָֽהּ׃nidatahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: menstruous impurity her
of a woman in her menstrual period, of any male or female who has a discharge, and of a man who lies with an unclean woman.’”
- בְּנִדָּתָ֔הּbenidatahpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: in menstruous impurity her
You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period.
- בְּנִדַּ֣תbenidatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in menstruous impurity of
If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is an act of impurity. He has uncovered the nakedness of his brother; they shall be childless.
- נִדָּ֣הnidahnoun · feminine singulartagged: impurity
Numbers
six uses
Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to gather up the ashes of the heifer and store them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept by the congregation of Israel for preparing the water of purification; this is for purification from sin.
- נִדָּ֖הnidahnoun · feminine singulartagged: impurity
Anyone who touches a human corpse and fails to purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. That person must be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean, because the water of purification has not been sprinkled on him, and his uncleanness is still on him.
- נִדָּ֜הnidahnoun · feminine singulartagged: impurity
But if a person who is unclean does not purify himself, he will be cut off from the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water of purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.
- נִדָּ֛הnidahnoun · feminine singulartagged: impurity
This is a permanent statute for the people: The one who sprinkles the water of purification must wash his clothes, and whoever touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening.
- הַנִּדָּה֙hanidahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the impurity
- הַנִּדָּ֔הhanidahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the impurity
everything that can withstand the fire—must be put through the fire, and it will be clean. But it must still be purified with the water of purification. And everything that cannot withstand the fire must pass through the water.
- נִדָּ֖הnidahnoun · feminine singulartagged: impurity
2 Chronicles
one use
“Listen to me, O Levites,” he said. “Consecrate yourselves now and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers. Remove from the Holy Place every impurity.
- הַנִּדָּ֖הhanidahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the impurity
Ezra
two uses
that You gave through Your servants the prophets, saying: ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the impurity of its peoples and the abominations with which they have filled it from end to end.
- נִדָּה֙nidahnoun · feminine singulartagged: impurity
- בְּנִדַּ֖תbenidatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: by impurity of
Lamentations
one use
Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed against Jacob that his neighbors become his foes. Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.
- לְנִדָּ֖הlenidahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into an impure thing
Ezekiel
five uses
They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, for it became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity.
- לְנִדָּ֣הlenidahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into an impure thing
His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them.
- לְנִדָּֽה׃lenidahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into an impure thing
He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her period.
- נִדָּ֖הnidahnoun · feminine singulartagged: menstruation
In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their fathers; in you they violate women during their menstrual impurity.
- הַנִּדָּ֖הhanidahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the menstruation
“Son of man, when the people of Israel lived in their land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds. Their behavior before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman’s impurity.
- הַנִּדָּ֔הhanidahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the menstruation
Zechariah
one use
“On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
- וּלְנִדָּֽה׃ulenidahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: and for impurity
Where it leads
Studies that open this word1
How the numbers are counted
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Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.