Separation

Separation - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

SEPARA'TION, n. [L. separatio.]

1. The act of separating, severing or disconnecting; disjunction; as the separation of the soul from the body.

2. The state of being separate; disunion; disconection.

All the days of his separation he is holy to the lord. Num 6.

3. The operation of disuniting or decomposing substances; chimical analysis.

4. Divorce; disunion of married persons.

sep-a-ra'-shun: In the Pentateuch the word niddah specially points to a state of ceremonial uncleanness (Le 12:2,5; 15:20 ff; Nu 6:4 ff; 12:13; 19:21). For a description of the "water of purification," used for cleansing what was ceremonially unclean (Nu 19), see HEIFER, RED; UNCLEANNESS. For "separation" in the sense of nezer, see NAZIRITE.