אזוב

Hebrew

Root
א־ז־ב (ʾ-z-b)

Etymology

Related to Classical Syriac ܙܘܦܐ (zōṗā), Akkadian 𒍪𒌑𒁍 (/⁠zūpu⁠/), Jewish Palestinian Aramaic אֵיזוֹבָא (ʾēzōḇa), Ancient Greek ὕσσωπος (hússōpos).

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Noun

אֵזוֹב • (ʾēzṓḇ) m

hyssop
- Tanach, Psalms 51:9:
  תְּחַטְּאֵנִי בְאֵזוֹב וְאֶטְהָר תְּכַבְּסֵנִי וּמִשֶּׁלֶג אַלְבִּין׃
  T'ḥaṭ'éni v-ezóv v-eṭ'hár; t'khab'séni u-mi-sheleg albin.
  Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
- a. 217 C.E., Mishnah, Nega'im 14:6:
  מִצְוַת אֵזוֹב, לֹא אֵזוֹב יָוָן, לֹא אֵזוֹב כּוֹחֲלִי, לֹא אֵזוֹב רוֹמִי, לֹא אֵזוֹב מִדְבָּרִית, וְלֹא כָל אֵזוֹב שֶׁיֶּשׁ לוֹ שֵׁם לְוָי:
  Mitzvát ezóv, lo ezóv Yaván, lo ezóv koḥalí, lo ezóv romí, lo ezóv midbarít, v-lo khol ezóv she-yesh lo shem l'váy.
  The commandment with hyssop - not hyssop of Greece, nor blue hyssop, nor Roman hyssop, nor desert hyssop, nor any hyssop that has a modifier.

Descendants

→ Ge'ez: አዘብ (ʾäzäb)

Verb

אָזוּב • (azúv)

First-person singular future (prefix conjugation) of זָב (záv): I will dribble.

References

Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎ (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 43
H231 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
“אזוב” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

Further reading

אזוב מצוי on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he

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