Leviticus 14:4

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4 H3548 Then shall the priest H6680 [H8765] command H3947 [H8804] to take H2891 [H8693] for him that is to be cleansed H8147 two H6833 birds H2416 alive H2889 and clean, H730 and cedar H6086 wood, H8144 H8438 and scarlet, H231 and hyssop:

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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.
Leviticus 1:14; Leviticus 5:7; Leviticus 12:8
cedar.
Leviticus 14:6; Leviticus 14:49-52; Numbers 19:6
scarlet.
Hebrews 9:19
hyssop.
Exodus 12:22; Numbers 19:18; Psalms 51:7