11 occurrences

'Smell' in the Bible

I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.

My wounds are infected and starting to smell, because of my foolish sins.

I will offer up to you fattened animals as burnt sacrifices, along with the smell of sacrificial rams. I will offer cattle and goats. (Selah)

ears, but cannot hear, noses, but cannot smell,

The Beloved to Her Lover: Awake, O north wind; come, O south wind! Blow on my garden so that its fragrant spices may send out their sweet smell. May my beloved come into his garden and eat its delightful fruit!

A putrid stench will replace the smell of spices, a rope will replace a belt, baldness will replace braided locks of hair, a sackcloth garment will replace a fine robe, and a prisoner's brand will replace beauty.

Once the satraps, prefects, governors, and ministers of the king had gathered around, they saw that those men were physically unharmed by the fire. The hair of their heads was not singed, nor were their trousers damaged. Not even the smell of fire was to be found on them!

I will remove the one from the north far from you. I will drive him out to a dry and desolate place. Those in front will be driven eastward into the Dead Sea, and those in back westward into the Mediterranean Sea. His stench will rise up as a foul smell." Indeed, the Lord has accomplished great things.

Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the deceased, replied, "Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, because he has been buried four days."

If the whole body were an eye, what part would do the hearing? If the whole were an ear, what part would exercise the sense of smell?

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּשׂם בּשׂם 
Besem 
Usage: 29

רוּח 
Ruwach 
Usage: 11

ריח 
Reyach 
Usage: 58

ריח 
Reyach (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

εὐωδία 
Euodia 
Usage: 3

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