STRONGS NUMBER H5708


Word Summary
ed: filthy
Original Word: עֵד
Transliteration: ed
Phonetic Spelling: (ayd)
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: filthy
Meaning: the menstrual flux, soiling
Strong's Concordance
filthy

From an unused root meaning to set a period (compare adah, uwd); the menstrual flux (as periodical); by implication (in plural) soiling -- filthy.

see HEBREW adah

see HEBREW uwd

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5708. ed

[עִדָּה‎] noun feminine menstruation, so Vrss (properly time, period); — plural absolute עִדִּים בֶּגֶדIsaiah 64:5 i.e. stained garment (figurative of best deeds of guilty people; "" טָמֵא‎).