Exodus 12:22

And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
take	וּלְקַחְתֶּ֞ם u.le.kach.Tem	H3947	to take (in the widest variety of applications) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 2nd person masculine plural
bunch	אֲגֻדַּ֣ת 'a.gu.Dat	H92	a band · noun, common feminine singular construct
hyssop	אֵז֗וֹב 'e.Zov	H231	hyssop · noun, common masculine singular absolute
dip	וּטְבַלְתֶּם֮ u.te.val.Tem	H2881	to dip · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 2nd person masculine plural
blood	בַּדָּ֣ם ba.Dam	H1818	blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or… · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
bason	בַּסַּף֒ ba.Saf	H5592	a vestibule (as a limit) · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
strike	וְהִגַּעְתֶּ֤ם ve.hi.ga'.Tem	H5060	properly · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential perfect, 2nd person masculine plural
lintel	הַמַּשְׁקוֹף֙ ha.mash.kOf	H4947	a lintel · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
two	שְׁתֵּ֣י she.Tei	H8147	two · cardinal number, feminine dual construct
posts	הַמְּזוּזֹ֔ת ha.me.zu.Zot	H4201	a door-post (as prominent) · definite article + noun, common feminine plural absolute
blood	הַדָּ֖ם ha.Dam	H1818	blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or… · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
bason	בַּסָּ֑ף ba.Saf	H5592	a vestibule (as a limit) · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
none	אִ֥ישׁ 'ish	H376	a man as an individual or a male person · noun, common masculine singular absolute
out	תֵצְא֛וּ te.tze.'U	H3318	to go (causatively · verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural
door	מִפֶּֽתַח mi.pe.tach-	H6607	an opening (literally) · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
house	בֵּית֖וֹ bei.To	H1004	a house (in the greatest variation of applications · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
morning	בֹּֽקֶר Bo.ker	H1242	properly · noun, common masculine singular absolute

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Cross-references

Hebrews 11:28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
Exodus 12:7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
Numbers 19:18 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons…
Psalms 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Hebrews 9:1 Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
Hebrews 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead…
Hebrews 9:19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and sc…
Leviticus 14:6-7 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 12:21-28

I. Moses is here, as a faithful steward in God's house, teaching the children of Israel to observe all things which God had commanded him; and no doubt he gave the instructions as largely as he received them, though they are not so largely recorded. It is here added, 1. That this night, when the first-born were to be destroyed, no Israelite must stir out of doors till morning, that is, till towards morning, when they would be called to march out of Egypt, Exo 12:22. Not but that the destroying angel could have known an Israelite from an Egyptian in the street; but God would intimate to them that their safety was owing to the blood of sprinkling; if they put themselves from under the protecti…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 12:22

hyssop--a small red moss [HASSELQUIST]; the caper-plant [ROYLE]. It was used in the sprinkling, being well adapted for such purposes, as it grows in bushes--putting out plenty of suckers from a single root. And it is remarkable that it was ordained in the arrangements of an all-wise Providence that the Roman soldiers should undesignedly, on their part, make use of this symbolical plant to Christ when, as our Passover, He was sacrificed for us [Joh 19:29]. none . . . shall go out at the door of his house until the morning--This regulation was peculiar to the first celebration, and intended, as some think, to prevent any suspicion attaching to them of being agents in the impending destructio…

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Adam Clarke on Exodus 12:22

A bunch of hyssop - The original word אזוב ezob has been variously translated musk, rosemary, polypody of the wall, mint, origanum, marjoram, and Hyssop: the latter seems to be the most proper. Parkhurst says it is named from its detersive and cleansing qualities, whence it was used in sprinkling the blood of the paschal lamb, in cleansing the leprosy, Lev 14:4, Lev 14:6, Lev 14:51, Lev 14:52; in composing the water of purification, Num 19:6, and sprinkling it, Num 19:18. It was a type of the purifying virtue of the bitter sufferings of Christ. And it is plain, from Psa 51:7, that the psalmist understood its meaning. Among botanists hyssop is described as "a genus of the gymnospermia (naked-…

The Church Fathers

For he who is baptized is seen to be purified both according to the law and according to the gospel. According to the law, because Moses sprinkled the blood of the lamb with a bunch of hyssop. According to the gospel, because Christ's garments were white as snow, when in the gospel he showed forth the glory of his resurrection.
— Ambrose of Milan, On the Mysteries 7.34

They are to bear in mind that those who celebrated the Passover at the time through figures and shadows, when they were commanded to mark their doorpost with the blood of the lamb, marked them with hyssop. This is a mild and humble plant, but it has very strong and penetrating roots. So, "being rooted and grounded in love," we may be able "to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth," that is, the cross of the Lord.
— Augustine of Hippo, ON CHRISTIAN TEACHING 2.41.62

Be it so, some will say, in the case of those who ask for baptism; what have you to say about those who are still children and conscious neither of the loss nor of the grace? Are we to baptize them too? Certainly, if any danger presses. For it is better that they should be unconsciously sanctified than that they should depart unsealed and uninitiated.A proof of this is found in the circumcision on the eighth day, which was a sort of typical seal. It was conferred on children before they had use of reason. And so is the anointing of the doorposts, which preserved the firstborn, though applied to things which had no consciousness.
— Gregory of Nazianzus, ORATION 40.28

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Dictionary and topics

Basin — Or Bason. (1.) A trough or laver (Heb. aggan’) for washing (Ex. 24:6); rendered also “goblet” (Cant. 7:2) and “cups” (Isa. 22:24). (2.) A covered dish or urn (Heb. k’for) among the vessels of the…
Blood — (1.) As food, prohibited in Gen. 9:4, where the use of animal food is first allowed. Comp. Deut. 12:23; Lev. 3:17; 7:26; 17:10-14. The injunction to abstain from blood is renewed in the decree of the…
Bunch — (1.) A bundle of twigs (Ex. 12:22). (2.) Bunch or cake of raisins (2 Sam. 16:1). (3.) The “bunch of a camel” (Isa. 30:6).
Hyssop — (Heb. ‘ezob; LXX. hyssopos), first mentioned in Ex. 12:22 in connection with the institution of the Passover. We find it afterwards mentioned in Lev. 14:4, 6, 52; Num. 19:6, 18; Heb. 9:19. It is…
Law of Moses — Is the whole body of the Mosaic legislation (1 Kings 2:3; 2 Kings 23:25; Ezra 3:2). It is called by way of eminence simply “the Law” (Heb. Torah, Deut. 1:5; 4:8, 44; 17:18, 19; 27:3, 8). As a written…
Lintel — (1.) Heb. mashkoph, a projecting cover (Ex. 12:22, 23; ver. 7, “upper door post,” but R.V. “lintel”); the head-piece of a door, which the Israelites were commanded to mark with the blood of the…
Passover — The name given to the chief of the three great historical annual festivals of the Jews. It was kept in remembrance of the Lord’s passing over the houses of the Israelites (Ex. 12:13) when the first…
Pentecost — I.e., “fiftieth”, found only in the New Testament (Acts 2:1; 20:16; 1 Cor. 16:8). The festival so named is first spoken of in Ex. 23:16 as “the feast of harvest,” and again in Ex. 34:22 as “the day…
Sacrifice — The offering up of sacrifices is to be regarded as a divine institution. It did not originate with man. God himself appointed it as the mode in which acceptable worship was to be offered to him by…
Blood · .Sprinkled on door posts — .Sprinkled on door posts

Exodus 12:22

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 12:21-28

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 12:22

Adam Clarke on Exodus 12:22

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Exodus 12:22

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 12:21-28

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 12:22

Adam Clarke on Exodus 12:22

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Gill on Exodus 12:22

John Calvin on Exodus 12:21-23

Keil & Delitzsch on Exodus 12:1-28

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Exodus 12:22

Rashi on Exodus 12:22