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title: אֵזוֹב — hyssop · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֵזוֹב (231), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 10 times: hyssop. BDB 1906: n.m. hyssop. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֵזוֹב

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«אֵזוֹב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **hyssop** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 10 times · **Key:** 231 · **BDB:** אֵזוֹב

### Glosses

hyssop (9); of.hyssop (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

hyssop [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/231/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. hyssop [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/231/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 1 K 5:13 hyssop (Mish. אזוב, Aramaic ܙܽܘܦܐ, Arabic زُوفَا Frey., Ethiopic አዞብ 𝔊 ὕσσωπος, herb of purging qualities, but perhaps not precise botanical term, v. Di Lv 14:6f, also Löw93) prob. a kind of wild marjoram (origanum Maru) PostHast DB Hyssop.—א׳ abs. Ex 12:22 + 4 times; אֵזֹב Lv 14:4 + 4 times;—hyssop, little plant (contr. אֶרֶז cedar) 1 K 5:13, הָא׳ אֲשֶׁר יֹצֵא בַּקִּיר; Ex 12:22 (J) אֲגֻדַּת א׳ a bunch of h. for sprinkling blood on doorposts; without אגרת, used in cleansing from leprosy Lv 14:4, 6, 49, 51, 52; burnt with red heifer Nu 19:6; used in cleansing with ashes of red heifer v 18 (all P); cf. ψ 51:9 תְּחַטְּאֵנִי בְּ׳ וְאֶטְהָ֑ר.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֵזוֹב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/231/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 51:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.51.9/)

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תְּחַטְּאֵ֣נִי בְאֵז֣וֹב וְאֶטְהָ֑ר תְּ֝כַבְּסֵ֗נִי וּמִשֶּׁ֥לֶג אַלְבִּֽין׃

*Word for word:* you will.cleanse.me.from.sin with hyssop so that.I.may.be.pure you will.wash.me and more than.snow I.will.become.white

*JPS 1917:* Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

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[Leviticus 14:49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.49/)

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וְלָקַ֛ח לְחַטֵּ֥א אֶת־הַבַּ֖יִת שְׁתֵּ֣י צִפֳּרִ֑ים וְעֵ֣ץ אֶ֔רֶז וּשְׁנִ֥י תוֹלַ֖עַת וְאֵזֹֽב׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.take to cleanse.from.sin (et) the house two birds and wood of.cedar and scarlet of.a.worm and hyssop

*JPS 1917:* And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.

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