רוח

Biblical Hebrew

smell — used 11 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

smell tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

The whole BDB entry

(√ of foll.; prob. breathe, blow (v. Gerber46); cf. Syr. ܪܳܚ breathe; Arabic رَاحَ be windy; Ethiopic ሮሐ: flabello ventilare, ventulum facere; Arabic رِيحٌ breath, wind, spirit, رُوحٌ soul, spirit; NH רוּחַ, Aramaic רוּחָא, ܪܽܘܚܳܐ wind, breath, spirit; also NH רֵיחַ, Aramaic רֵיחָא, ܪܺܝܚܳܐ, all odour; NH רִיחַ, רוּחַ (usually Hiph.), 𝔗 Syr. Aph., all smell).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (14 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he smelled (2); they (2); I delight (1).

In the verses

Amos 5:21 · tree →

שָׂנֵ֥אתִי מָאַ֖סְתִּי חַגֵּיכֶ֑ם וְלֹ֥א אָרִ֖יחַ בְּעַצְּרֹֽתֵיכֶֽם׃

Word for word: I.hate I.reject feasts your and not I.delight in assemblies your

JPS 1917: I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.

Psalms 115:6 · tree →

אָזְנַ֣יִם לָ֭הֶם וְלֹ֣א יִשְׁמָ֑עוּ אַ֥ף לָ֝הֶ֗ם וְלֹ֣א יְרִיחֽוּן׃

Word for word: ears [belong].to them and not they.hear a.nose [belongs].to them and not they smell

JPS 1917: They have ears, but they hear not; noses have they, but they smell not;

On Mova

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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