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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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two birds
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"or, sparrows. The word tzippor, from the Arabic zaphara, to fly, is used in the Scriptures to denote birds of every species, particularly small birds. But it is often used in a more restricted sense, as the Hebrew writers assert, to signify the sparrow. Aquinas says the same; and Jerome renders it here the sparrow. So the Greek [strouthia] in Matthew and Luke, which signifies a sparrow, is rendered by the Syriac translator tzipparin , the same as the Hebrew tzipporim . Nor is it peculiar to the Hebrews to give the same name to the sparrow and to fowls of the largest size; for Nicander calls the hen [strouthos katoikados] the domestic sparrow, and both Plautus and Ausonius call the ostrich, passer marinus, ""the marine sparrow."" It is evident, however, that the word in this passage signifies birds in general; for if the sparrow was a clean bird, there was no necessity for commanding a clean one to be taken, since every one of the species was ceremonially clean; but if it was unclean, then it could not be called" |
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cedar
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Lev 14:6,49-52; Num 19:6 |
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scarlet
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Hbr 9:19 |
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hyssop
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Exd 12:22; Num 19:18; Psa 51:7 |
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Lev 14:6 |
As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird [that was] killed over the running water: |
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Lev 14:49 |
And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: |
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Lev 14:50 |
And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water: |
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Lev 14:51 |
And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times: |
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Lev 14:52 |
And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet: |
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Num 19:6 |
And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast [it] into the midst of the burning of the heifer. |
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Hbr 9:19 |
For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, |
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Exd 12:22 |
And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip [it] in the blood that [is] in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that [is] in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. |
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Num 19:18 |
And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip [it] in the water, and sprinkle [it] upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave: |
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Psa 51:7 |
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Leviticus 14:4," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Lev/14/4.html>.
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