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 ףפסןץטיב, 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 ףפסןץטןע ךבפןיךבהןע, 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. Leviticus 1:14, Leviticus 5:7, Leviticus 12:8

cedar: Leviticus 14:6, Leviticus 14:49-1 Thessalonians :, Numbers 19:6

scarlet: Hebrews 9:19

hyssop: Exodus 12:22, Numbers 19:18, Psalms 51:7

Reciprocal: Joshua 2:18 - scarlet thread Song of Solomon 4:3 - scarlet Luke 5:14 - and offer