Flux, in biblical terms, refers to a condition of abnormal bodily discharge, often associated with illness or impurity. The term is primarily used in the context of Levitical laws concerning cleanliness and purity. In the Bible, flux is mentioned in relation to both men and women, with specific instructions given for handling such conditions.

Biblical References:

1. Leviticus 15:2-3 : "Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean. This is the uncleanness of his discharge: whether his body allows the discharge to flow or blocks it, it is uncleanness."

In this passage, the term "flux" is used to describe a male bodily discharge, which renders the individual ceremonially unclean. The discharge could be due to various medical conditions, but the focus in the Levitical law is on the ritual impurity it causes.

2. Leviticus 15:25 : "When a woman has a discharge of blood for many days at a time other than her menstrual period, or if she has a discharge that continues beyond her period, she will be unclean as long as she has the discharge, just as in the days of her menstruation."

Here, the flux refers to a prolonged or abnormal discharge of blood in women, which also results in ceremonial impurity. The law provides specific guidelines for purification once the discharge ceases.

3. Mark 5:25-29 : "And a woman was there who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had borne much agony under the care of many physicians and had spent all she had, but to no avail. Instead, her condition had only grown worse. When the woman heard about Jesus, she came up through the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak. Immediately her bleeding stopped, and she sensed in her body that she was healed of her affliction."

This New Testament account highlights a woman suffering from a chronic flux of blood. Her healing by Jesus not only restored her health but also her social and religious standing, as she was no longer considered unclean.

Theological Implications:

The concept of flux in the Bible is deeply intertwined with the ideas of purity and holiness. In the Old Testament, physical conditions like flux were seen as barriers to participating in the community's religious life. The laws concerning flux served to maintain the sanctity of the Israelite camp and the tabernacle, emphasizing the holiness required to approach God.

In the New Testament, the healing of the woman with the issue of blood by Jesus signifies a shift from ritual purity laws to the transformative power of faith and divine grace. Jesus' willingness to heal and interact with those considered unclean underscores the inclusivity of His ministry and the new covenant's focus on spiritual rather than ceremonial purity.

Cultural and Historical Context:

In ancient Israel, health and religious observance were closely linked. Conditions like flux were not only medical issues but also matters of religious concern. The Levitical laws provided a framework for managing these conditions, ensuring that the community remained ritually clean and able to worship God appropriately.

The healing narratives in the Gospels reflect the broader cultural understanding of illness and purity, while also challenging and redefining those concepts through the person and work of Jesus Christ.1. (n.) A continuous changing, as of a flowing stream; constant succession.

2. (n.) The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the reflux.

3. (n.) The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.

4. (n.) Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalis, borax, lime, fluorite.

5. (n.) A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux.

6. (n.) The matter thus discharged.

7. (n.) The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time.

8. (n.) Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.

9. (v. t.) To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux.

10. (v. t.) To cause to become fluid; to fuse.

11. (v. t.) To cause a discharge from; to purge.

BLOODY FLUX

fluks (puretos kai dusenteria, literally "fever and dysentery"): The disease by which the father of Publius was afflicted in Malta (Acts 28:8). the Revised Version (British and American) calls it "dysentery"; a common and dangerous disease which in Malta is often fatal to soldiers of the garrison even at the present day (Aitken, Pract. of Medicine, II, 841). It is also prevalent in Palestine at certain seasons, and in Egypt its mortality was formerly about 36 percent. Its older name was due to the discharge of blood from the intestine. Sometimes portions of the bowel become gangrenous and slough, the condition described as affecting Jehoram (2 Chronicles 21:19). There seems to have been an epidemic of the disease at the time of his seizure (2 Chronicles 21:14, 15), and in the case of the king it left behind it a chronic ulcerated condition, ending in gangrene. Somewhat similar conditions of chronic intestinal ulceration following epidemic dysentery I have seen in persons who had suffered from this disease in India.

Alex. Macalister

FLUX

fluks.

See BLOODY FLUX; DYSENTERY.

4511. rhusis -- a flowing
... a flowing, hemorrhage. From rhoumai in the sense of its congener rheo; a flux (of
blood) -- issue. see GREEK rhoumai. see GREEK rheo. (rusei) -- 2 Occurrences. ...
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1420. dusenterion -- dysentery
... dysentery. From dus- and a comparative of entos (meaning a bowel); a "dysentery" --
bloody flux. see GREEK dus-. see GREEK entos. (dusenterio) -- 1 Occurrence. ...
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5708. ed -- filthy
... filthy From an unused root meaning to set a period (compare adah, uwd); the menstrual
flux (as periodical); by implication (in plural) soiling -- filthy. ...
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1253. bor -- lye, potash
... never so, purely The same as bor; vegetable lye (from its cleansing); used as a
soap for washing, or a flux for metals -- X never so, purely. see HEBREW bor. ...
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2101. zob -- an issue (of fluid)
... Word Origin from zub Definition an issue (of fluid) NASB Word Usage discharge (13).
issue. From zuwb; a seminal or menstrual flux -- issue. see HEBREW zuwb. ...
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2100. zub -- to flow, gush
... A primitive root; to flow freely (as water), ie (specifically) to have a (sexual)
flux; figuratively, to waste away; also to overflow -- flow, gush out, have a ...
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As to those who are Overtaken by an Involuntary Flux in the Night ...
... V."The Epistle to Bishop Basilides. Canon IV. As to those who are overtaken
by an involuntary flux in the night-time? As to ...
/.../dionysius/the works of dionysius/canon iv as to those.htm

Heraclitus; his Universal Dogmatism; his Theory of Flux; Other ...
... Chapter IV."Heraclitus; His Universal Dogmatism; His Theory of Flux; Other
Systems. But Heraclitus, a natural philosopher of Ephesus ...
/.../chapter iv heraclitus his universal dogmatism.htm

Concerning the Holy Trinity.
... and immortal, everlasting, infinite, uncircumscribed, boundless, of infinite power,
simple, uncompound, incorporeal, without flux, passionless, unchangeable ...
/.../exposition of the orthodox faith/chapter viii concerning the holy trinity.htm

First Tractate.
... The Will of God is able to cope with the ceaseless flux and escape of body stuff
by ceaselessly reintroducing the known forms in new substances, thus ensuring ...
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That it is Possible, when the Human Body is Dissolved into the ...
... For neither does our being consist altogether in flux and change"for surely that
which had by nature no stability would be absolutely incomprehensible"but ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/xxvii that it is possible.htm

He Proceeds Again to Discuss the Impassibility of the Lord's ...
... back to the true and blessed life, not being the same with that which takes place
"of blood and of the will of the flesh [641] ," in which are flux and change ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/section 4 he proceeds again.htm

A Rationale of Sleep, of Yawning, and of Dreams .
... 1. This life of our bodies, material and subject to flux, always advancing by way
of motion, finds the power of its being in this, that it never rests from its ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/xiii a rationale of sleep.htm

The Letter of the Blessed Dionysius, the Archbishop of Alexandria ...
... proposed, was whether Christian women should be excluded from the church and need
follow the example of the Hebrews, who "when the menstrual flux was upon them ...
/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/i the letter of the.htm

As we Confess the Divine Birth of the virgin to be Without any ...
... that Mary was ever-virgin, even after she had brought forth the incarnate Son, so
it follows necessarily that there could be no childbed nor puerperal flux. ...
/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/canon lxxix as we confess.htm

Whether the Soul Knows Bodies through the Intellect?
... And because they observed that all bodies are mobile, and considered them to be
ever in a state of flux, they were of opinion that we can have no certain ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the soul knows bodies.htm

Flux (26 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive
and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux. ...
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Bloody-flux (1 Occurrence)
Bloody-flux. Bloody, Bloody-flux. Bloom . Multi-Version Concordance
Bloody-flux (1 Occurrence). Acts 28:8 And it came ...
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Closed (47 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 15:3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his flux: whether his flesh
run with his flux, or his flesh be closed from his flux, it is his uncleanness. ...
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Bloody (19 Occurrences)
... MO Evans. BLOODY FLUX. ... Matthew 9:20 And behold, a woman, who had had a bloody flux
for twelve years, came behind and touched the hem of his garment; (DBY). ...
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Separation (50 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 15:19 And if a woman have a flux, and her flux in her flesh be blood,
she shall be seven days in her separation, and whoever toucheth her shall be ...
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Object (76 Occurrences)
... (WEY). Leviticus 15:4 Every bed whereon he lieth that hath the flux shall be unclean;
and every object on which he sitteth shall be unclean. (DBY). ...
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Issue (59 Occurrences)
... 6. (n.) A discharge of flux, as of blood. ... BLOOD, ISSUE OF. ish'-u. See BLOODY
FLUX. Multi-Version Concordance Issue (59 Occurrences). ...
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Logos
... law or ruling principle. This profoundest of Greek philosophers saw everything
in a condition of flux. Everything is forever passing ...
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Garments (232 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 15:6 And he that sitteth on any object whereon he sat that hath the flux
shall wash his garments, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even. ...
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Bloom (9 Occurrences)

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