Bible Encyclopedia: Semen

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Strong's Hebrew

2231. zirmah -- an issue (a fluid)
... of zerem Definition an issue (a fluid) NASB Word Usage issue (2). issue. Feminine
of zerem; a gushing of fluid (semen) -- issue. see HEBREW zerem. 2230, 2231 ...
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4325. mayim -- waters, water
... Dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense); water; figuratively, juice;
by euphemism, urine, semen -- + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood ...
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Library

Whether the Semen is Produced from Surplus Food?
... OF THE PROPAGATION OF MAN AS TO THE BODY (TWO ARTICLES) Whether the semen
is produced from surplus food? Objection 1: It would seem ...
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Whether the Intellectual Soul is Produced from the Semen?
... OF THE PRODUCTION OF MAN FROM MAN AS TO THE SOUL (THREE ARTICLES) Whether
the intellectual soul is produced from the semen? Objection ...
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Whether the Sensitive Soul is Transmitted with the Semen?
... OF THE PRODUCTION OF MAN FROM MAN AS TO THE SOUL (THREE ARTICLES) Whether
the sensitive soul is transmitted with the semen? Objection ...
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Whether the First Sin of Our First Parent is Contracted by his ...
... Objection 3: Further, whatever is transmitted by way of human origin, is caused
by the semen. ... Much less, therefore, can the semen infect the soul. ...
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Quænam De Procreatione Liberorum Tractanda Sint.
... Neque vero seminandum est supra petram, neque semen est contumlia afficiendum, quod
quidem dux est et princeps generationis, estque substantia, quæ simul ...
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De Utero, Et Conceptione Atque Sexibus.
... Sed illa dexterior masculinum continet semen, sinisterior foemininum; et omnino
in toto corpore pars dextra masculina est, sinistra veto foeminina. ...
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Whether virginity Consists in Integrity of the Flesh?
... Objection 4: Further, corruption of the flesh consists chiefly in resolution of
the semen: and this may take place without copulation, whether one be asleep or ...
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Whether Original Sin is More in the Flesh than in the Soul?
... Now the soul is infected with the corruption of original sin by the carnal semen.
Therefore original sin is in the flesh rather than in the soul. ...
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Whether the Flesh of Christ was Conceived of the virgin's Purest ...
... men's bodies. But other men's bodies are not formed from the purest blood
but from the semen and the menstrual blood. Therefore ...
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Whether the Parts of the Vegetative Soul are Fittingly Described ...
... extrinsic source; whereas the generation of living things is in a higher way, through
something in the living thing itself, which is the semen containing the ...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The seed of plants.

2. (n.) The seed or fecundating fluid of male animals; sperm. It is a white or whitish viscid fluid secreted by the testes, characterized by the presence of spermatozoids to which it owes its generative power.

Thesaurus

Semen (6 Occurrences)
...Semen (6 Occurrences). ... Leviticus 15:16 "'If any man has an emission of semen, then
he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening. ...
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Seminal (5 Occurrences)
... Seminal (5 Occurrences). Leviticus 15:16 "'If any man has an emission of semen,
then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening. ...
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Emission (7 Occurrences)
... Emission (7 Occurrences). Leviticus 15:16 "'If any man has an emission of semen,
then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening. ...
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Bathe (35 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 15:16 "'If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe
all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening. ...
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Evening (163 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 15:16 "'If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe
all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening. ...
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Whereon (45 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY). Leviticus 15:17 Every garment, and every skin, whereon the
semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening. ...
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Issue (59 Occurrences)
... (2) (zirmah; yatsa' (verb); rhusis): A gushing of fluid (semen, Ezekiel 23:20; water,
47:8; blood, Luke 8:43). See next article. ISSUE (OF BLOOD). ...
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Thereby (42 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 15:32 This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an
emission of semen, so that he is unclean thereby; (WEB JPS ASV YLT RSV). ...
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Pollution (5 Occurrences)
... impurity. 2. (n.) The emission of semen, or sperm, at other times than in sexual
intercourse. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. POLLUTION. ...
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Semellius

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Bible Concordance

Semen (6 Occurrences)

Genesis 38:9 Onan knew that the seed wouldn't be his; and it happened, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.
(See RSV NIV)

Leviticus 15:16 "'If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.
(WEB RSV NIV)

Leviticus 15:17 Every garment, and every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
(WEB RSV NIV)

Leviticus 15:18 If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.
(WEB RSV NIV)

Leviticus 15:32 This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean thereby;
(WEB RSV NIV)

Leviticus 22:4 "'Whoever of the seed of Aaron is a leper or has an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goes from him;
(See RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Semen

Related Terms

Seminal (5 Occurrences)

Emission (7 Occurrences)

Bathe (35 Occurrences)

Evening (163 Occurrences)

Whereon (45 Occurrences)

Issue (59 Occurrences)

Thereby (42 Occurrences)

Pollution (5 Occurrences)

Semellius