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# אֵזוֹב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H231

**hyssop** — used 10 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

hyssop [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/231/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵזוֹב: n.m. hyssop [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/231/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 1 K 5:13 hyssop (Mish. אזוב, Aramaic ܙܽܘܦܐ, Arabic زُوفَا Frey., Ethiopic አዞብ 𝔊 ὕσσωπος, herb of purging qualities, but perhaps not precise botanical term, v. Di Lv 14:6f, also Löw93) prob. a kind of wild marjoram (origanum Maru) PostHast DB Hyssop.—א׳ abs. Ex 12:22 + 4 times; אֵזֹב Lv 14:4 + 4 times;—hyssop, little plant (contr. אֶרֶז cedar) 1 K 5:13, הָא׳ אֲשֶׁר יֹצֵא בַּקִּיר; Ex 12:22 (J) אֲגֻדַּת א׳ a bunch of h. for sprinkling blood on doorposts; without אגרת, used in cleansing from leprosy Lv 14:4, 6, 49, 51, 52; burnt with red heifer Nu 19:6; used in cleansing with ashes of red heifer v 18 (all P); cf. ψ 51:9 תְּחַטְּאֵנִי בְּ׳ וְאֶטְהָ֑ר.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: hyssop (9); of hyssop (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 51:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.51.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.51.9/#tree)

תְּחַטְּאֵ֣נִי בְאֵז֣וֹב וְאֶטְהָ֑ר תְּ֝כַבְּסֵ֗נִי וּמִשֶּׁ֥לֶג אַלְבִּֽין׃

*Word for word:* you will.cleanse.me.from.sin with hyssop so that.I.may.be.pure you will.wash.me and more than.snow I.will.become.white

*JPS 1917:* Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

[Leviticus 14:49](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.49/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.49/#tree)

וְלָקַ֛ח לְחַטֵּ֥א אֶת־הַבַּ֖יִת שְׁתֵּ֣י צִפֳּרִ֑ים וְעֵ֣ץ אֶ֔רֶז וּשְׁנִ֥י תוֹלַ֖עַת וְאֵזֹֽב׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.take to cleanse.from.sin (et) the house two birds and wood of.cedar and scarlet of.a.worm and hyssop

*JPS 1917:* And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/231.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/231/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).