Leviticus 14:4
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. 1:14; 5:7; 12:8cedar.6,49-52; Nu 19:6scarlet.Heb 9:19hyssop.Ex 12:22; Nu 19:18; Ps 51:7Numbers 4:8
6,7,9,11-13Numbers 19:6
Le 14:4,6,49; Ps 51:7; Isa 1:18; Heb 9:19-23Joshua 2:21
And she bound.18; Mt 7:24; Joh 2:5Hebrews 9:19
the blood.12; 10:4; Ex 24:5,6,8-11; Le 1:2,3,10; 3:6; 16:14-18scarlet. or, purple.Le 14:4-6,49-52; Nu 19:6; Mt 27:28; Mr 15:17,20; Joh 19:2,5hyssop.Ex 12:22; Nu 19:18; Ps 51:7sprinkled.12:24; Ex 24:8; Isa 52:15; Eze 36:25; 1Pe 1:2
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