a ritual bath used by women for purification after emerging from the state of niddah, and used by both men and women in their endeavors to attain spiritual self-refinement
(a gathering, accumulation [of water]) pool of water for immersing the body to purify it from ritual uncleanness. The mikveh is similarly used to purify vessels (Numbers 31:22-23). Immersion in a mikveh is also obligatory for proselytes, as part of their ceremony of conversion.
(Hebrew, "collection," especially of water) — Bath in which Orthodox Jews immerse themselves for ritual purification, as before the Sabbath or following menstruation.
Ritual bath for spiritual cleansing
the ritual bath found in synagogues where purification ceremonies take place. A woman visits the mikveh to cleanse herself after birth or menstruation, allowing her to become 'clean' again.
A ritual pool used for purification purposes
a pool of water Yahuwdiyth - They are made so that one walks down into them, dunks theirselves and then walks out again
a special pool of water of a specific size
(MICK-veh) Body of water used for ritual immersion.
(pl., mikvaos) pool for ritual immersion
Means 'gathering' and was a ritual bath used achieve ritual cleanliness by priests. Later rabbinic writings associated this ritual bath with female cleanliness following her menstrual cycles; mikveh is also used for female conversions in modern Judaism. At the time of Yeshua, mikveh was used to identify one's religious affiliations and to renew one's faith -- baptism itself is a type of mikveh.
Immersion in fresh water for ritual purification. Ti 3:5
Bath of Jewish spiritual purity.
Married women traditionally go to the mikveh following their period and before resuming sexual relations. The waters of the mikveh symbolically purify – they are seen as waters of rebirth. A convert immerses in the mikveh as part of conversion. * Couples go to the mikveh before being married. *Many, including some men, go to the mikveh before Yom Kippur; some go every Friday before Shabbat.
