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Lexicon :: Strong's H231 - 'ēzôḇ

Aa
אֵזוֹב
Transliteration
'ēzôḇ
Pronunciation
ay-zobe'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably of foreign derivation
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 55

Strong’s Definitions

אֵזוֹב ʼêzôwb, ay-zobe'; probably of foreign derivation; hyssop:—hyssop.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x

The KJV translates Strong's H231 in the following manner: hyssop (10x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x
The KJV translates Strong's H231 in the following manner: hyssop (10x).

  1. hyssop, a plant used for medicinal and religious purposes

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֵזוֹב ʼêzôwb, ay-zobe'; probably of foreign derivation; hyssop:—hyssop.
STRONGS H231: Abbreviations
† אֵזוֺב noun masculine1Ki 5:13 hyssop (Mishna אזוב, Aramaic aBvuz, Arabic زُوفَا Frey., Ethiopic አዘብ፡ Greek Version of the LXX ὕσσωπος, herb of purging qualities, but perhaps not precise botanical term, see Di Leviticus 14:6f; see also Löw93) **probably a kind of wild marjoram (origanum Muru) PostHast. DB Hyssop. — א׳ absolute Exodus 12:22 + 4 times; אֵזֹב Leviticus 14:4 + 4 times; — hyssop, little plant (contracted אֶרֶז cedar) 1 Kings 5:13, אֲשֶׁר יֹצֵא בַּקִּיר הָא׳; Exodus 12:22 (J) אֲגֻדַּת א׳ a bunch of hyssop for sprinkling blood on doorposts; without אגדת, used in cleansing from leprosy Leviticus 14:4, 6, 49, 51, 52; burnt with red heifer Numbers 19:6; used in cleansing with ashes of red heifer Numbers 19:18 (all P); compare Psalm 51:9 וְאֶטְהָ֑ר תְּחַטְּאֵנִי בְּא׳.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

12:22; 12:22

Leviticus

14:4; 14:4; 14:6; 14:6; 14:49; 14:51; 14:52

Numbers

19:6; 19:18

1 Kings

5:13; 5:13

Psalms

51:9

H231

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Strong's Number H231 matches the Hebrew אֵזוֹב ('ēzôḇ),
which occurs 10 times in 10 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:22 - And take some hyssop and put it in the blood in the basin, touching the two sides and the top of the doorway with the blood from the basin; and let not one of you go out of his house till the morning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:4 - Then the priest is to give orders to take, for him who is to be made clean, two living clean birds and some cedar wood and red thread and hyssop.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:6 - And he will take the living bird and the wood and the red thread and the hyssop and put them in the blood of the bird which was put to death over flowing water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:49

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:49 - And in order to make the house clean, let him take two birds and cedar-wood and red thread and hyssop;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:51

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:51 - And take the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread and the living bird and put them in the blood of the dead bird and in the flowing water, shaking it over the house seven times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:52

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:52 - And he will make the house clean with the blood of the bird and the flowing water and with the living bird and with the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:6 - Then let the priest take cedar-wood and hyssop and red thread, and put them into the fire where the cow is burning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:18 - And a clean person is to take hyssop and put it in the water, shaking it over the tent, and all the vessels, and the people who were there, and over him by whom the bone, or the body of one who has been put to death with the sword, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or the resting-place was touched.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:33 - He made sayings about all plants, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop hanging on the wall; and about all beasts and birds and fishes and the small things of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:7 - Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.
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