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# hyssop

noun

«hyssop» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Jewish tradition

It is used with cedar-wood and scarlet in purifying rituals, such as cleansing a leprous person or house and the red heifer. Its leaves made a brush for sprinkling.

**Interpretation.** The rabbis took the hyssop to be a small, lowly plant, and some read in it a lesson about humility and cleansing. The Hebrew ezov is often thought to be a type of marjoram, though the exact plant is debated.

### Meaning

A small bushy plant with fragrant leaves, used in old times as a herb and for sprinkling. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hyssop/#m1)

### Examples

- And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop. (Torah LEV.14.49, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hyssop/#x1)
- And the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer. (Torah NUM.19.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hyssop/#x2)
- then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two living clean birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop. (Torah LEV.14.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hyssop/#x3)
- Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. (Writings PSA.51.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hyssop/#x4)
- And he spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall; he spoke also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. (Prophets 1KI.5.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hyssop/#x5)

### Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «hyssop» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hyssop/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«hyssop» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/hyssop.html) on Mova free.