Word

אֵזוֹב

ʼêzôwb · H231 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences

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Meanings

Hyssop

An aromatic, hairy-leaved plant of origanum maru, under a meter tall with white flowers, whose leaves and branches were gathered in bunches for sprinkling in the ritual purification of the Jews

Examples
Exodus 12:22 “And you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts; and none of you shall go outside the door of his house until morning.
Leviticus 14:4 then the priest shall give orders to take two live clean birds, cedar wood, a scarlet string, and hyssop for the one who is to be cleansed.
Leviticus 14:6 “As for the live bird, he shall take it together with the cedar wood, the scarlet string, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the running water.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

יָצָאto go out 1

What is done to itIt is the object

6 occurrences in 1 groups

לָקַחto take, to receive 6

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

בin/on/with 3
עַדto, as far as, until 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אֲגֻדָּהcord 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

ὕσσωπος hýssōpos · G5301 · hyssop: Direct translation equivalent: Greek ὕσσωπος renders Hebrew אֵזוֹב in references to the hyssop plant used in purification rituals (Exodus 12:22, Leviticus 14:4, Numbers 19:6, etc.), with identical botanical and ceremonial connotations across both Testaments (cf. John 19:29).

Semantic domains 1 entry

Plants001002007001: אֵזוֹב names hyssop, the small plant used bound in a bunch to apply blood at the Passover and in purification rites.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H231. ezob אֵזוֺב noun masculine1Ki 5:13 hyssop (Mishna אזוב, Aramaic , Arabic Frey.,…

H231. ezob
אֵזוֺב noun masculine1Ki 5:13 hyssop (Mishna אזוב, Aramaic , Arabic Frey., Ethiopic ᵐ5 ὕσσωπος, herb of purging qualities, but perhaps not precise botanical term, see Di Lev 14:6 f; see also Löw93) **probably a kind of wild marjoram (origanum Muru) PostHast. DB Hyssop. — ׳א absolute Exo 12:22 Exo 12:4t.; אֵזֹב Lev 14:4 Lev 14:4t.; — hyssop, little plant (contracted אֶרֶז cedar) 1Ki 5:13, ׳הָא בַּקִּיר יֹצֵא אֲשֶׁר; Exo 12:22 (J) א ׳אֲגֻדַּת a bunch of h. for sprinkling blood on doorposts; without אגדת, used in cleansing from leprosy Lev 14:4, Lev 14:6, Lev 14:49, Lev 14:51, Lev 14:52; burnt with red heifer Num 19:6; used in cleansing with ashes of red heifer Num 19:18 (all P); compare Psa 51:9 בְּא ׳תְּחַטְּאֵנִי וְאֶטְהָ֑ר.
אַזְכָּרָה see זכר.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Plants10 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0