זוּב
zuv
“to flow: flowing”
Definition
to flow freely (as water), i.e. (specifically) to have a (sexual) flux; figuratively, to waste away; also to overflow
a primitive root;
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Grammar & Morphology
Verb
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Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
זוּב appears 41 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
May it whirl over the heads of Joab and the entire house of his father, and may the house of Joab never be without one having a discharge or skin disease, or one who leans on a staff or falls by the sword or lacks food.”
I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Why do you boast of your valleys—your valleys so fruitful,O faithless daughter?You trust in your riches and say,‘Who can come against me?’
Any saddle on which the man with the discharge rides will be unclean.
But I have told you that you will inherit their land, since I will give it to you as an inheritance—a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the peoples.
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