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Leviticus 14:51

in Leviticus 14

Then he shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn, and the live bird, dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and he shall take the cedar-wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:

KJV

And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:

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This verse in Leviticus 14

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

As a house could not contract any impurity in the sight of God, the "atonement" which the priest was to make for it must either have a reference to the sins of its occupants or to the ceremonial process appointed for its purification, the very same as that observed for a leprous person.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird,.... See Gill on Lev 14:6. and sprinkle the house seven times. See Gill on Lev 14:7.

The words behind it

24 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְלָקַ֣חand he will take

    velakachH3947 →966 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • עֵֽץ־[the] wood of

    ʾetz-H6086 →328 times

  • הָ֠אֶרֶז<the> cedar

    haerezH730 →73 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • הָ֨אֵזֹ֜בthe hyssop

    haezoH231 →10 times

  • וְאֵ֣ת׀and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • שְׁנִ֣י[the] scarlet of

    sheniH8144 →42 times

  • הַתּוֹלַ֗עַתthe worm

    hatolaatH8438 →43 times

  • וְאֵת֮and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • הַצִּפֹּ֣רthe bird

    hatziporH6833 →40 times

  • הַֽחַיָּה֒<the> living

    hachaiyahH2416 →498 times

  • וְטָבַ֣לand he will dip

    vetavalH2881 →16 times

  • אֹתָ֗ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

  • בְּדַם֙in [the] blood of

    bedamH1818 →360 times

  • הַצִּפֹּ֣רthe bird

    hatziporH6833 →40 times

  • הַשְּׁחוּטָ֔ה[which] had the throat cut

    hashechutahH7819 →81 times

  • וּבַמַּ֖יִםand in the water

    uvamayimH4325 →581 times

  • הַֽחַיִּ֑ים<the> living

    hachaiyimH2416 →498 times

  • וְהִזָּ֥הand he will spatter [it]

    vehizahH5137 →24 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַבַּ֖יִתthe house

    habayitH1004 →2046 times

  • שֶׁ֥בַעseven

    sheva'H7651 →394 times

  • פְּעָמִֽים׃times

    peamimH6471 →118 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Psalms 51:7

    Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

    it leads to

    • 1 John 1:7

      But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

    • Isaiah 1:18

      “Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.

    • Hebrews 9:13–14

      For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean,

    • Numbers 19:18–20

      Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to…

    • Hebrews 9:19

      For when Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and…

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
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This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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