# H5079 נִדָּה

נִדָּה (niddâh), Strong’s H5079: properly, rejection; by implication, impurity, especially personal (menstruation) or moral (idolatry, incest) KJV: [idiom] far, filthiness, [idiom] flowers…

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

KJV: [idiom] far, filthiness, [idiom] flowers, menstruous (woman), put apart, [idiom]…

Derived from [נָדַד nâdad](https://besorah.bible/word/H5074) (to wave to and fro)

Occurs 29 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- נִדָּה n.f. impurity (as abhorrent, shunned)
- 1 of ceremonial impurity
- 2 fig. (with allusion to cerem. usage), impure thing

## Where it occurs
- [Leviticus 12:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/12?v=2) — “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean…
- [Leviticus 12:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/12?v=5) — But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the…
- [Leviticus 15:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/15?v=19) — “‘If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days. Whoever…
- [Leviticus 15:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/15?v=20) — “‘Everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be unclean. Everything also that she sits on shall be unclean.
- [Leviticus 15:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/15?v=24) — “‘If any man lies with her, and her monthly flow is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed he lies on…
- [Leviticus 15:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/15?v=25) — “‘If a woman has a discharge of her blood many days not in the time of her period, or if she has a discharge beyond the…
- [Leviticus 15:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/15?v=26) — Every bed she lies on all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her period. Everything she sits on…
- [Leviticus 15:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/15?v=33) — and of her who has her period, and of a man or woman who has a discharge, and of him who lies with her who is unclean.
- [Leviticus 18:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/18?v=19) — “‘You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.
- [Leviticus 20:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/20?v=21) — “‘If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is an impurity. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They shall be…