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# hyssop

«hyssop» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A small bushy plant with fragrant leaves, used in old…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

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

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and 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.

### 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://md.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://md.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://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hyssop/#x5)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.418/)
- [Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.850/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hyssop» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hyssop/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.