What Does Leviticus 15:25 Mean in the King James?
And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The repeated word for “flow” makes the body’s continuing movement, rather than the calendar, the measure of how long separation lasts.
THE MEANING
When bleeding extends beyond its expected interval, the continuing flow sets the measure: each day it continues is counted as a day of separation. The verse names her unclean for every day the issue continues, holding the bodily condition and its status together.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The expected end of the separation automatically ends the condition.
THE ROOT
זוֹב
zov
GROWS FROM
זוב
To flow, gush, or discharge.
English renders this root as both the noun “issue” and the verb “run,” while the verse repeats it in each clause. The body’s flow is both the ongoing event and the measure of the days that follow.
ALSO GROWS
yazuv: will flow
יָזוּב
The first clause uses this form for a flow that continues many days, making its duration part of the condition.
tazuv: she flows
תָזוּב
The second clause repeats the same root for the flow that continues beyond the time of separation.
zovo: his discharge
זוֹבוֹ
This form appears in Leviticus 15:2, where the same root names the discharge itself as well as a person experiencing it.
THE PATTERN
A continuing bodily flow is reckoned for as long as it continues, with its duration shaping the condition named around it.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean.And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,THE THREAD
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean.The connected verse uses the same Hebrew root for the person experiencing a discharge and for the discharge itself. That shared seed links the person’s bodily state with the flow named here, making the continuing condition central to the verse’s duration-bound status.
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