נִדָּה

niddâh · Hebrew · Strong's H5079 · 29 occurrences

The KJV renders 30 different Hebrew and Greek words as “thing”

What it means

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

from H5074 (נָדַד);

How the KJV renders it

filthiness, menstruous, put apart, separation, set apart, uncleanness, thing, with filthiness

Where that flattens a distinction

The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.

“thing”

also renders tìs (G5100), asthenḗs (G772), hágios (G40), mēdeís (G3367), tís (G5101), oudeís (G3762), lógos (G3056), prâgma (G4229), nomízō (G3543), ʼômer (H562), gâdôwl (H1419), dâbâr (H1697), zûwr (H2114), chay (H2416), ṭûwb (H2898), yârêʼ (H3372), kôl (H3605), kᵉlîy (H3627), mᵉlâʼkâh (H4399), mᵉʻaṭ (H4592), nephesh (H5315), ʻôsheq (H6233), piggûwl (H6292), qôdesh (H6944), qâlal (H7043), qâsheh (H7186), raʻ (H7451), tahpukâh (H8419), tôwʻêbah (H8441)

“filthiness”

also renders molysmós (G3436), aischrótēs (G151), ṭumʼâh (H2932), nᵉchôsheth (H5178)

“uncleanness”

also renders miasmós (G3394), akatharsía (G167)

“separation”

also renders nezer (H5145)

“set apart”

also renders ʻâbar (H5674)

Where it appears

29 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 24 verses shown.

2 Chronicles 29:5 · HTd/Ncfsa

and said to them, “Listen to me, you Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and carry the filthiness out of the holy place.

Ezekiel 7:19 · HR/Ncfsa

They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold won’t be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls or fill their bellies; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.

Ezekiel 7:20 · HR/Ncfsa

As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things therein. Therefore I have made it to them as an unclean thing.

Ezekiel 18:6 · HNcfsa

and has not eaten on the mountains, hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hasn’t defiled his neighbor’s wife, hasn’t come near a woman in her impurity,

Ezekiel 22:10 · HTd/Ncfsa

In you have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness. In you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.

Ezekiel 36:17 · HTd/Ncfsa

“Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and by their deeds. Their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.

Ezra 9:11 HNcfsaLamentations 1:17 HR/NcfsaLeviticus 12:2 HNcfscLeviticus 12:5 HR/Ncfsc/Sp3fsLeviticus 15:19 HR/Ncfsc/Sp3fsLeviticus 15:20 HR/Ncfsc/Sp3fsLeviticus 15:24 HNcfsc/Sp3fsLeviticus 15:25 HNcfsc/Sp3fsLeviticus 15:26 HNcfsc/Sp3fsLeviticus 15:33 HR/Ncfsc/Sp3fsLeviticus 18:19 HR/NcfscLeviticus 20:21 HNcfsaNumbers 19:9 HNcfsaNumbers 19:13 HNcfsaNumbers 19:20 HNcfsaNumbers 19:21 HTd/NcfsaNumbers 31:23 HNcfsaZechariah 13:1 HC/R/Ncfsa

Occurrences and morphology are taken from the primary Hebrew text, never from an English translation. Strong's Hebrew lexicon and Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures). Strong's Greek lexicon is public domain.