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Is It Actually in the Bible?
Phrases people quote as Scripture. The real verse, or the honest answer that there is not one.
The woman "had an issue of blood twelve years" (Mark 5:25), which sounds like she had some unspecified personal or emotional issues.
"Issue" here means a physical discharge or flow of blood, a chronic medical condition under Levitical purity law, not a vague "issue" in the modern sense.
Mark 5:25, in every translation this tool compares.
"Issue" comes from a root meaning "to flow out" or "exit," and in medical usage referred to any bodily discharge, here likely chronic uterine bleeding lasting twelve years. Under Leviticus 15, this condition made the woman ceremonially unclean and effectively isolated from worship and community.
Modern English kept "issue" mainly in the abstract senses of a problem, a topic, or a magazine printing, losing the older, very literal medical sense of a bodily flow, so "issue of blood" now sounds vaguer than it is.
