וְלָקַ֛ח לְחַטֵּ֥א אֶת הַבַּ֖יִת שְׁתֵּ֣י צִפֳּרִ֑ים וְעֵ֣ץ אֶ֔רֶז וּשְׁנִ֥י תוֹלַ֖עַת וְאֵזֹֽב
To cleanse the house he shall take two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Leviticus 14:49
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Leviticus 14:49 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
To cleanse the house he shall take two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.
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Compare translations 3
The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
To cleanse the house he shall take two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he shall take two birds and wood of cedar and scarlet of worm and hyssop to cleanse the house.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
To cleanse the house he shall take two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
He is to take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop to purify the house;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
He is to take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop to purify the house;
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King James Version Public Domain
And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Then shall he take to purifie the house, two sparrowes, and cedar wood, and skarlet lace, and hyssope.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And for the purification thereof he shall take two sparrows, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
`And he hath taken for the cleansing of the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And he has taken two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop for the cleansing of the house;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Then the priest must take two birds to cleanse the house, and cedar wood, and scarlet yarn, and hyssop.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he shall take two birds and wood of cedar and scarlet of worm and hyssop to cleanse the house.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And he shall take, to purge the house from the defilement, two birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
To cleanse the house he shall take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
He will bring two birds, cedar wood, crimson thread, and hyssop to make the house clean.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And in order to make the house clean, let him take two birds and cedar-wood and red thread and hyssop;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.
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וְאֵזֹֽב
ʼêzôwb
H231
“and · hyssop”
Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 10× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 12:22
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
hyssop, a plant used for medicinal and religious purposes
- וְלָקַ֛ח lâqach H3947 “and · to take” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- לְחַטֵּ֥א châṭâʼ H2398 “to sin” Preposition + Verb, Piel, Infinitive Construct
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- הַבַּ֖יִת bayith H1004 “the · house” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- שְׁתֵּ֣י shᵉnayim H8147 “two” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Dual, Construct
- צִפֳּרִ֑ים tsippôwr H6833 “birds” Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute
- וְעֵ֣ץ ʻêts H6086 “and · tree of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- אֶ֔רֶז ʼerez H730 “cedar” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וּשְׁנִ֥י shânîy H8144 “and · scarlet of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- תוֹלַ֖עַת tôwlâʻ H8438 “worm” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- וְאֵזֹֽב ʼêzôwb H231 “and · hyssop” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 11
- words
- 11
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is וְאֵזֹֽב hyssop H231 — appearing just 10 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וְאֵזֹֽב hyssop H231 occurs in 10 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 7 nouns
- 1 adjective
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- וְלָקַ֛ח Qal · Sequential Perfect
- לְחַטֵּ֥א Piel · Infinitive Construct
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 20 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 11 Hebrew tokens and 17 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Cross-references
1Topical passages linked to Leviticus 14:49 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Leviticus 14:4 then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί λαμβάνω ἀποἁγνίζω ὁ οἰκία δύο ὀρνίθιον ζάω καθαρός καί ξύλον κέδρινος καί κλώθω κόκκινος καί ὕσσωπος
And he shall take to purify the house two clean living birds, and cedar wood, and spun scarlet, and hyssop.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְיִסַב לְדַכָּאָה יָת בֵּיתָא תַּרְתֵּין צִפֲּרִין וְאָעָא דְאַרְזָא וּצְבַע זְהוֹרִי וְאֵזוֹבָא
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְיִסַב לְדַכָּאָה יַת בֵּיתָא תַּרְתֵּין צִפְּרִין וְקֵיסָא דְאַרְזָא וּצְבַע זְהוֹרֵי וְאֵיזוֹבָא
And he shall take, for the purification plague of the house, two turtle doves and cedarwood and scarlet and hyssop;
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 11 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼêzôwb (“hyssop”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “hyssop” (ʼêzôwb) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- Exodus 12:22 shares the word «hyssop» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- The verb «וְלָקַ֛ח» is Qal Sequential Perfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Geneva Bible (1599) and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 11 Hebrew ↔ 17 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 1 word in this verse.
- 11 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Leviticus 14:49 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.