זִיד
zud
to boil
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# H2102 (זִיד): A Hebrew Word for Boiling The Hebrew word *zud* (H2102) carries the primary meaning "to boil," describing the physical process of liquid heating to its active, bubbling state. With ten occurrences in the biblical text, this verb appears with sufficient frequency to suggest it held practical importance in ancient Hebrew communication, likely reflecting everyday experience with cooking and heating liquids. The term's usage appears grounded in observable physical phenomena rather than abstract concepts. The word's presence in biblical narrative suggests it functioned as a straightforward descriptive term for a recognizable domestic or preparatory process. Its relatively modest number of occurrences indicates it was a specialized term—not among the most common vocabulary but present enough to be a standard part of the language for describing this particular action. Without access to the specific biblical passages where *zud* appears, the full range of its metaphorical or extended meanings cannot be determined from the lexicon data alone. The definition as given points to a concrete, physical process, making it an example of Hebrew's capacity to preserve technical vocabulary for everyday activities essential to ancient Near Eastern life.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
10 total occurrences across the text
and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is today.
Nehemiah 9:16“But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,
Nehemiah 9:29and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.
Jeremiah 50:29“Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp against her all around. Let none of it escape. Pay her back according to her work. According to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel.
Genesis 25:29Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.
Exodus 18:11Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”
Exodus 21:14If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
Deuteronomy 1:43So I spoke to you, and you didn’t listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill country.
Deuteronomy 17:13All the people shall hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
Deuteronomy 18:20But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.”