אֵזוֹבʼêzôwb
hyssop (1 Kings 5:13; Leviticus 14:6; Exodus 12:22; Leviticus 14:4; Leviticus 14:49)
Pronunciation: ay-zobe' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H231
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 10 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 12:22 Drain the blood into a basin. Then take a bundle of hyssop branches and dip it into the blood. Brush the hyssop across the top and sides of the doorframes of your houses. And no one may go out through the door until morning.
- Leviticus 14:4 he will perform a purification ceremony, using two live birds that are ceremonially clean, a stick of cedar, some scarlet yarn, and a hyssop branch.
- Leviticus 14:6 He will take the live bird, the cedar stick, the scarlet yarn, and the hyssop branch, and dip them into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water.
- Leviticus 14:49 To purify the house the priest must take two birds, a stick of cedar, some scarlet yarn, and a hyssop branch.
- Leviticus 14:51 He will take the cedar stick, the hyssop branch, the scarlet yarn, and the live bird, and dip them into the blood of the slaughtered bird and into the fresh water. Then he will sprinkle the house seven times.
- Leviticus 14:52 When the priest has purified the house in exactly this way,
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).