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Numbers 19

Num. 19:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And the priest
kohen (Hebrew #3548)
literally, one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman)
KJV usage: chief ruler, X own, priest, prince, principal officer.
Pronounce: ko-hane'
Origin: active participle of 3547
shall take
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
cedar
'erez (Hebrew #730)
a cedar tree (from the tenacity of its roots)
KJV usage: cedar (tree).
Pronounce: eh-rez'
Origin: from 729
g wood
`ets (Hebrew #6086)
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)
KJV usage: + carpenter, gallows, helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.
Pronounce: ates
Origin: from 6095
, and hyssop
'ezowb (Hebrew #231)
hyssop
KJV usage: hyssop.
Pronounce: ay-zobe'
Origin: probably of foreign derivation
, and scarlet
shaniy (Hebrew #8144)
crimson, properly, the insect or its color, also stuff dyed with it
KJV usage: crimson, scarlet (thread).
Pronounce: shaw-nee'
Origin: of uncertain derivation
towla` (Hebrew #8438)
or towla ath {to-lah'-ath}; or tolaiath {to-lah'-ath}; from 3216; a maggot (as voracious); specifically (often with ellipsis of 8144) the crimson-grub, but used only (in this connection) of the color from it, and cloths dyed therewith
KJV usage: crimson, scarlet, worm.
Pronounce: to-law'
Origin: and (feminine) towleoah {to-lay-aw'}
, and cast
shalak (Hebrew #7993)
to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: adventure, cast (away, down, forth, off, out), hurl, pluck, throw.
Pronounce: shaw-lak
Origin: a primitive root
it into the midst
tavek (Hebrew #8432)
a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre
KJV usage: among(-st), X between, half, X (there- ,where-), in(-to), middle, mid(-night), midst (among), X out (of), X through, X with(-in).
Pronounce: taw'-vek
Origin: from an unused root meaning to sever
of the burning
srephah (Hebrew #8316)
cremation
KJV usage: burning.
Pronounce: ser-ay-faw'
Origin: from 8313
of the heifer
parah (Hebrew #6510)
a heifer
KJV usage: cow, heifer, kine.
Pronounce: paw-raw'
Origin: feminine of 6499
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Lev. 14:4,6,49• 4Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
 6As 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 blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:
 49And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: (Lev. 14:4,6,49)

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Cedar,
Heifer,
Hyssop,
Priest; Priesthood,
Scarlet

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Lev. 14:4,6,49• 4Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
 6As 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 blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:
 49And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: (Lev. 14:4,6,49)
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Psa. 51:7• 7Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. (Psa. 51:7)
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Isa. 1:18• 18Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (Isa. 1:18)
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Heb. 9:19‑23• 19For 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 scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
 20Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
 21Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
 22And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
 23It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. (Heb. 9:19‑23)
• If my heart loves Jesus, I shall not seek a place, a portion, or a name where He found only a malefactor’s cross. This, dear reader, is the simple way to look at the matter. (“Numbers 19” by C.H. Mackintosh)
• The cedar and the hyssop represent nature in its widest extremes; and, in giving its extremes, they take in all that lies between. Solomon “spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall” {1 Kings 4:33}. (“Numbers 19” by C.H. Mackintosh)
• “Scarlet” is viewed, by those who have carefully examined Scripture on the point, as the type or expression of human splendor, worldly grandeur, the glory of this world, the glory of man. Hence, therefore, we see in the burning of the heifer, the end of all worldly greatness, human glory, and the complete setting aside of the flesh, with all its belongings. This renders the burning of the heifer deeply significant. It shadows forth a truth too little known, and, when known, too readily forgotten — a truth embodied in these memorable words of the apostle, “God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, whereby the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world” {Gal. 6:14). (“Numbers 19” by C.H. Mackintosh)
• Such, precisely, is the measure of our deliverance from this present evil world — from its fashions, its maxims, its habits, its principles. The believer has absolutely nothing in common with this world, in so far as he enters into the spirit and power of the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. That cross has dislodged him from everything here below, and made him a pilgrim and a stranger in this world. The truly devoted heart sees the dark shadow of the cross looming over all the glitter and glare, the pomp and fashion of this world. Paul saw this, and the sight of it caused him to esteem the world, in its very highest aspect, in its most attractive forms, in its brightest glories, as dross. (“Numbers 19” by C.H. Mackintosh)
• cedar wood, hyssop and scarlet (that is, all that was of man, and his human glory in the world). --“From the cedar down to the hyssop” is the expression of nature from her highest elevation to her lowest depth. --Scarlet is external glory (the world, if you please). (“Numbers 19” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast them into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

W. Kelly Translation

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And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.