Hebrew noun (masculine) · H231
אֵזוֹב
ezobay-zobe'
hyssop
10 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼêzôwb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H231is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H231
hyssop
The King James renders it: hyssop.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ezob is rendered "hyssop". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Five of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 12:22Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and brush the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and brush the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.
Exodus 12:22אֵז֗וֹב
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's ten uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and hyssop3
- the hyssop3
- hyssop2
- and with the hyssop1
- with hyssop1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֵזוֹר | ezor | girdle | Uses14 |
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וְאֵזֹֽב׃2
- אֵז֗וֹב1
- אֵז֜וֹב1
- בְאֵז֣וֹב1
- הָאֵזֹ֑ב1
- הָ֨אֵזֹ֜ב1
- הָאֵז֔וֹב1
- וְאֵז֖וֹב1
- וּבָאֵזֹ֖ב1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular3HC/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular3HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HC/Rd/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
Exodus
one use
Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and brush the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.
- אֵז֗וֹבʾezovnoun · masculine singulartagged: hyssop
Leviticus
five uses
the priest shall order that two live clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be brought for the one to be cleansed.
- וְאֵזֹֽב׃veezoconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and hyssop
And he is to take the live bird together with the cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop, and dip them into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water.
- הָאֵזֹ֑בhaezothe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the hyssop
He is to take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop to purify the house;
- וְאֵזֹֽב׃veezoconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and hyssop
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.
- הָ֨אֵזֹ֜בhaezothe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the hyssop
And he shall cleanse the house with the bird’s blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet yarn.
- וּבָאֵזֹ֖בuvaezoconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and with the hyssop
Numbers
two uses
The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer.
- וְאֵז֖וֹבveezovconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and hyssop
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 sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, or a person who has died or been slain.
- אֵז֜וֹבʾezovnoun · masculine singulartagged: hyssop
1 Kings
one use
He spoke of trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing in the wall, and he taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.
- הָאֵז֔וֹבhaezovthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the hyssop
Psalms
one use
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
- בְאֵז֣וֹבveezovpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: with hyssop
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.