אזוב
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Hebrew
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א־ז־ב (ʾ-z-b) |
Etymology
[edit]Related to Classical Syriac ܙܘܦܐ (zōṗā), Akkadian 𒍪𒌑𒁍 (/zūpu/), Jewish Palestinian Aramaic אֵיזוֹבָא (ʾēzōḇa), Ancient Greek ὕσσωπος (hússōpos).
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]אֵזוֹב • (ʾēzṓḇ) m
- hyssop
- 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
[edit]- → Ge'ez: አዘብ (ʾäzäb)
Verb
[edit]אָזוּב • (azúv)
- First-person singular future (prefix conjugation) of זָב (záv): I will dribble.
References
[edit]- Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft[1] (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
[edit]- אזוב מצוי on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia he