אֵזוֹב
ezov · hyssop
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H231 · appears 10 times in the Bible
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ezov (אֵזוֹב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hyssop”.
A plant with small branches used like a brush for sprinkling.
How to say it
e·zov
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A plant used for sprinkling in cleansing.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Exodus 12:22
Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the bowl, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with some of the blood that is in the bowl. As for you, none shall go out of the door of his house until morning.
- Leviticus 14:4
the priest shall command that they take for the one being purified two clean living birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.
- Leviticus 14:6
The living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the living water.
- Leviticus 14:49
To purify the house he shall take two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.
- Leviticus 14:51
He shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and in the living water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
- Leviticus 14:52
He shall purify the house with the blood of the bird and with the living water and with the living bird and with the cedar wood and with the hyssop and with the scarlet.
- Numbers 19:6
And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet yarn and throw them into the midst of the burning of the cow.
- Numbers 19:18
And a clean man shall take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the vessels and on the persons who were there, and on the one who touched the bone or the slain or the dead or the grave.
- 1 Kings 4:33
And he spoke of the trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that comes out in the wall; and he spoke of the beasts, and of the birds, and of the creeping things, and of the fish.
- Psalms 51:7
Cleanse me from sin with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.