H5206 H5206
impurity, uncleanness (ritual and moral)
In Lamentations 1:8, Jerusalem is personified as a woman whose impurity has become visible to all. The term parallels niddah (menstrual impurity) in verse 17 of the same chapter, creating a shocking metaphor: the holy city now resembles a ritually unclean woman. This vocabulary typically belongs to Levitical purity law but here serves poetic-prophetic purposes, expressing the depth of Judah's spiritual and moral defilement after the Babylonian conquest.
Sentidos
1. sense 1 — The single occurrence in Lamentations 1:8 employs ritual purity language for theological effect. Cross-linguistically, translators struggle to render the cultic overtones: Spanish 'inmunda' (unclean), French 'impureté,' and German versions often resort to explanatory phrases. The preposition 'for impurity' suggests Jerusalem has become an object of disgust, like something ritually contaminated. 1×
AR["لِنَجَاسَةٍ"]·ben["ঘৃণার-বস্তু"]·DE["[לנידה]"]·EN["for-impurity"]·FR["en-impureté"]·heb["ל-נידה"]·HI["अशुद्ध"]·ID["menjadi-najis"]·IT["a-impurita"]·jav["najis"]·KO["불결한-것-으로"]·PT["para-impureza"]·RU["скитания"]·ES["por-inmunda"]·SW["kitu-cha-kuchukiza"]·TR["murdar-şey-olarak"]·urd["نجاست"]
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Referencia BDB / Léxico
† נִידָה n.f. id. (on form cf. Ges§ 20, 3, R. 1 Köii. 1, 497);—of Jerusalem La 1:8 (= נִדָּה v 17).