STRONGS NUMBER H231


Word Summary
ezob: hyssop
Original Word: אֵזוֹב
Transliteration: ezob
Phonetic Spelling: (ay-zobe')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: hyssop
Meaning: hyssop
Strong's Concordance
hyssop

Probably of foreign derivation; hyssop -- hyssop.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H231. ezob

אֵזוֺבnoun masculine1 Kings 5:13 hyssop (Mishna אזוב‎, Aramaic , Arabic Frey., Ethiopic ᵐ5ὕσσωπος, herb of purging qualities, but perhaps not precise botanical term, see Di Leviticus 14:6 f; see also Löw93) **probably a kind of wild marjoram (origanum Muru) PostHast. DB Hyssop. — ׳א‎ absolute Exodus 12:22 4t.; אֵזֹבLeviticus 14:4 4t.; — hyssop, little plant (contracted אֶרֶזcedar) 1 Kings 5:13, ׳הָא בַּקִּיר יֹצֵא אֲשֶׁר‎; Exodus 12:22 (J) א ׳אֲגֻדַּת‎ a bunch of h. 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 19:18 (all P); compare Psalm 51:9 בְּא ׳תְּחַטְּאֵנִי וְאֶטְהָ֑ר‎.

אַזְכָּרָה‎ see זכר‎.