Definition

properly, rejection; by implication, impurity, especially personal (menstruation) or moral (idolatry, incest)

Etymology

from H5074 (נָדַד);

Where the KJV renders it

• far
• filthiness
• flowers
• menstruous (woman)
• put apart
• removed (woman)
• separation
• set apart
• unclean(-ness
• thing
• with filthiness)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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