- נדה
- נִדָּהf. (b. h.; נָדָה) 1) (v. נִידּוּי) isolation, condition of uncleanness, esp. period of menstruation. Sabb.64b, a. e. (ref. to Lev. 15:33) בנִדָּתָהּ ההאוכ׳ she shall remain in her isolation (from her husband) until Ib. 6:5 שהתקינה לנדתה which she has prepared for her menstruating time, Ib. 2, 6 בנ׳ (= במצות נ׳) in the observance of the laws connected with menstruation; a. fr. 2) (sub. בעלת) a woman during menstruation, menstruant. Nidd.I, 7 חוץ מן הנ׳, expl. ib. 11a בתוך ימי נדתה during the days of actual menstruation. Treat. Kallah beg. נ׳ שלא טבלה a woman after menstruation before she has taken the ritual bath; כנ׳ is to be treated like a woman during menstruation; a. fr.Pl. נִדּוֹת. Nidd.IV, 1 נ׳ are to be treated like menstruants; a. fr.Niddah, name of a treatise, of the Order of Tohăaroth, of Mishnah, Tosefta and Talmud Babli and Yrushalmi (fragmentary).Ab. III, 18 פתחי נדה the laws treated in Arakh.II, 1 (8a), v. פֶּתַח.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.