noun · feminine
hussōpas
Strong’sG5301
hyssop
stem hussōp-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
† ὕσσωπος, -ου, ἡ
[in LXX for אֵזוֹב;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5301 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhoos'-so-pos
"hyssop"
Fromof foreign origin ();
King Jameshyssop.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
hyssop, Origanum hirtum, Hebrew 'ēzōb, NT+5th c.BC+:—also ὕσσωπον, τό, Refs 1st c.AD+; compare ὑσωπίς. (Written ὑσω- in Refs 1st c.AD+ [same places] (hyso-), NT+2nd c.AD+; ὑσσω- in Refs and frequently in codices; ὑσσ- is a long syllable in Refs 2nd c.BC+ [same places]; genitive written ἱσσύπου in Refs 2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | hussōpas | hussōpais |
| object accusative | hussōpan | hussōpain |
| direct address vocative | hussōpar | hussōpair |
| of, belonging to genitive | hussōpau1×ὑσσώπου | hussōpaiu |
| to, for dative | hussōpa1×ὑσσώπῳ | hussōpai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
hussōpa is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
hussōpau“hyssop”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Hebrews 9:19… meta hudeu kai erieu kokkineu kai hussōpau autem tē tem bibliem kai panton …… along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all …
hussōpa“hyssop”to, fordative singular1×
John 19:29… mestem; spongon oun meston teu oxeu hussōpa perititharantois prosferala autou te stome.… put it on a stalk of hyssop, and lifted it to His mouth.