Leviticus 14:4
two .... birds <08147 06833> [two birds. or, sparrows.]
The word {tzippor,} from the Arabic {zaphara,} to fly, is used in the Scriptures to denote birds of every species, particularly small birds. But it is often used in a more restricted sense, as the Hebrew writers assert, to signify the sparrow. Aquinas says the same; and Jerome renders it here the sparrow. So the Greek [strouthia,] in Matthew and Luke, which signifies a sparrow, is rendered by the Syriac translator {tzipparin}, the same as the Hebrew {tzipporim}. Nor is it peculiar to the Hebrews to give the same name to the sparrow and to fowls of the largest size; for Nicander calls the hen [strouthos katoikados,] the domestic sparrow, and both Plautus and Ausonius call the ostrich, {passer marinus,} "the marine sparrow." It is evident, however, that the word in this passage signifies birds in general; for if the sparrow was a clean bird, there was no necessity for commanding a clean one to be taken, since every one of the species was ceremonially clean; but if it was unclean, then it could not be called clean.
cedar <0730> [cedar.]
crimson <08144> [scarlet.]
hyssop <0231> [hyssop.]
Leviticus 14:6
live bird ........................... live bird ....... bird ..... fresh <06833 02416> [the living bird.]
live ........................ dip ..... live ............ fresh <02881 02416> [dip them.]
Leviticus 14:49
Psalms 51:7
Sprinkle <02398> [Purge.]
pure ........ whiter <02891 03835> [and.]
whiter <03835> [whiter.]
Isaiah 1:18
consider <03198> [and let us.]
sins <02399> [though your.]
Hebrews 9:19-23
blood <129> [the blood.]
scarlet <2847> [scarlet. or, purple.]
hyssop <5301> [hyssop.]
sprinkled <4472> [sprinkled.]
This <5124> [This.]
covenant <1242> [testament. Rather, covenant.]
Ver. 16, 17, may be better rendered, "For where a covenant is, there must necessarily be the death of that by which it is confirmed; for a covenant is confirmed over dead victims, and does not avail while that by which it is confirmed liveth."
almost <4975> [almost.]
and without <2532 5565> [and without.]
sketches of the things <5262> [the patterns.]
heavenly things <2032> [the heavenly.]
