What does αἱμοῤῥέω (haimorrhéō) mean in the Bible?
αἱμοῤῥέω (haimorrhéō): Continuous pathological blood loss, emphasizing ongoing discharge rather than acute bleeding or wound.
Greek · G131
αἱμοῤῥέω
αἱμοῤῥέω (haimorrhéō): Continuous pathological blood loss, emphasizing ongoing discharge rather than acute bleeding or wound.
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αἱμοῤῥέωG131
Pronunciationhaimorrhéō
What does αἱμοῤῥέω (haimorrhéō) mean in the Bible?
Full entry for αἱμοῤῥέω (G131) · Open the biblical lexicon
Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G131?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include who had suffered from bleeding (1).
Where does αἱμοῤῥέω (haimorrhéō) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 9:20. Its strongest book concentrations include Matthew (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Itwho had suffered from bleeding1×Matthew 9:20
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned rowMatthew 9:20
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
Matthew1
Source forms
αἱμορροοῦσα1xhaimorroousaMatthew 9:20
Parsing patterns
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Feminine Singular1xMatthew 9:20
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Continuous pathological blood loss, emphasizing ongoing discharge rather than acute bleeding or wound.
Source Gloss
to bleed
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Matthew 9:20Verb Present Active Participle Nominative Singular Feminine
αἱμορροοῦσαaimorroousa
I suffer from a continual flow (oozing) of blood
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Discourse Aspect
How this verb appears across 1 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
Aspect
Tense
present1
Voice
active1
Mood
participle1
Aspect reflects grammatical form — not authorial emphasis. Participles and infinitives are verbal adjectives and nouns respectively.
Clause data: MACULA Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0) · SBLGNT (Logos/SBL, CC BY 4.0)
Word Origins
αἱμοῤῥέω is built from these roots: