This verb means to lose blood, hemorrhage, or suffer from chronic bleeding. Medical texts used it for various hemorrhagic conditions. Matthew employs it in Matthew 9:20 to describe the woman who had been "suffering from bleeding" for twelve years. The word captures both the medical condition (chronic hemorrhaging, possibly menstrual) and the resultant suffering—not only physical weakness but ritual uncleanness and social isolation under Levitical law. Her courage to touch Jesus despite her unclean state underscores the desperation of her condition and her faith that Christ could heal what physicians could not.