1. hyssop (plant) — A small aromatic plant (likely Origanum syriacum or similar) used in purification rituals, including sprinkling blood during Passover (Exod 12:22), cleansing from leprosy (Lev 14:4,6), and the red heifer rite (Num 19:6,18). All three sense clusters represent the same botanical referent with purely grammatical variation: bare noun, with definite article, and with prepositional phrases. Multilingual evidence is uniform: spa 'hisopo/el hisopo', arb 'زُوفَا/الزُّوفَا', hin 'जूफ़ा', kor '우슬초', swa 'hisopo', all translating a single plant species used in ceremonial contexts. 10×
AR["الزُّوفَا","الْزُوفَا","بِ-الزُّوفَا","زُوفَا","وَ-بِ-الزُّوفَا","وَ-زُوفَا"]·ben["এজোব","এজোবের","এবং-এজোব","এবং-এজোবে","দ্বারা-এজোব","সেই-এজোব"]·DE["Ysop","der-Ysop","der-hyssop","mit-hyssop","und-Ysop","und-mit-der-Ysop"]·EN["and-hyssop","and-with-the-hyssop","hyssop","the-hyssop","with-hyssop"]·FR["dans-hysope","et-avec-le-hyssop","et-hyssop","hysope","hyssop","le-hyssop"]·heb["אזוב","ב-אזוב","ה-אזב","ה-אזוב","ו-אזב","ו-אזוב","ו-ב-ה-ובאזב"]·HI["और-जूफ़ा","और-जूफा","और-में","जूफ़ा","जूफ़ा-का","जूफ़े-से","जूफा","लकड़ी"]·ID["dan-dengan-hisop","dan-hisop","dan-hisop.","hisop","hisop;"]·IT["[באזוב]","e-con-il-issopo","e-issopo","il-hyssop","il-issopo","issopo"]·jav["hisop","ing-kadursilanan","isop","lan-hisop","lan-mawi-hisop"]·KO["그-우슬초","그리고-안에서-우슬초로","그리고-우슬초","그리고-우슬초를","우슬초-로","우슬초-를","우슬초를","우슬초의"]·PT["com-hissopo","e-com-o-hissopo","e-hissopo","hissopo","o-hissopo"]·RU["и-в-иссопе","и-иссоп","иссоп","иссопа","иссопом"]·ES["con-hisopo","e-hisopo","el-hisopo","hisopo","y-con-el-hisopo"]·SW["cha-hisopo","hisopo","hutoka","kwa-hisopo","na-hisopo","na-kwa-hisopo"]·TR["mercankişnesini","mercankorek","mercanköşk-ile","ve-mercankişnesi","ve-mercankişnesiyle","ve-mercankorek","zufa"]·urd["اور-زوفا","اور-زوفہ","اور-سے-زوفا","زوفا","زوفہ","زوفے-سے","زوفے-کا"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† אֵזוֹב 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;…