What Does Leviticus 15:33 Mean in the King James?
And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is 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 Hebrew word for “issue” comes from the root זוב, “to flow,” gathering the verse’s categories around what flows from the body and how bodies meet.
THE MEANING
This verse gathers menstrual bleeding, a man’s discharge, and sexual contact into one field of bodily impurity. It presents these conditions as affecting contact between bodies. The verse names a state of ritual impurity, not a measure of anyone’s worth.
THE ROOT
הַזָּב
hazzāv
GROWS FROM
זוב
zûb: to flow, stream, or gush out.
“him that hath an issue” in this verse is hazzāv. The same seed names both the person described by the discharge and the discharge itself, keeping body and flow linguistically joined. Isaiah 48:21 uses this root for water gushing from a rock, so it describes movement or discharge without implying moral fault.
ALSO GROWS
zov: A flow or discharge.
זוֹב
This noun names the flow itself, the bodily condition grouped in the verse.
yāzûvû: They flow or gush out.
יָזוּבוּ
Isaiah 48:21 uses this form for waters gushing from a rock, showing the root’s concrete sense of flowing out.
טְמֵאָה
ṭəmēʾāh
GROWS FROM
טמא
ṭ-m-ʾ: to be ritually impure or unclean.
“unclean” in this verse is ṭəmēʾāh. The root names a condition of ritual impurity attached to the body and its contact. Here it marks a status; it does not call the person morally blameworthy.
ALSO GROWS
ṭāmēʾ: Unclean or impure.
טָמֵא
This is the masculine form of the same condition named in the verse.
ṭumʾāh: Impurity or uncleanness.
טֻמְאָה
This noun names the state that the verse applies to the bodily conditions and contact it describes.
THE PATTERN
Scripture treats bodily flow as a real condition and connects it with contact and bodily purification.
And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: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 Hebrew behind “issue” belongs to זוב, the root of flowing, in both verses. Leviticus 15:2 names the man’s discharge directly, while 15:33 gathers that flow with other bodily conditions and their contact.
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