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# רֵיחַ

Biblical Aramaic

**smell** — used 1 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

smell [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b5_5d9_5d7_5b7/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֵיחַ: n.f. smell [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b5_5d9_5d7_5b7/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. smell;—cstr. ר׳ נוּר Dn 3:27.

### Jastrow 1903

רֵיחַ: flavor, scent, odor; sense of smell slight resemblance, suspicion of [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b5_5d9_5d7_5b7/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** preced.) flavor, scent, odor; sense of smell. Ber. 43ᵇ (ref. to Ps. CL, 6) איזהו דבר … זה הר׳ what is the thing which the soul enjoys and from which the body has no material benefit? It is smell. Ib. עתידים … שיתנו ר׳ וכ׳ in the future the young men of Israel shall give forth sweet savor (of purity) like the Lebanon (ref. to Hos. XIV, 7). Lev. R. s. 30; a. v. fr.—Trnsf. (cmp. אָבָק) slight resemblance, a suspicion of. Gitt. 86ᵇ אף ר׳ הגט אין בו it has not even the slightest resemblance to a letter of divorce (by which the woman concerned might be precluded from marrying a priest); Y. ib. IX, 50ᵇ top אפי׳ ר׳ פסול אין בה there is not a suspicion of disqualification in her case. Y. Sot. I, 16ᵈ top מר׳ ערוה נגעו בה something of the odor of incest has touched her (the rival wife of a faithless woman); a. e.—Pl. ריחוֹת. Cant. R. to I, 3 כל … ר׳ היו וכ׳ all the songs which the ancients recited before thee were merely sweet savors, but we (say), ‘oil that is poured forth is thy name’; כל המצות … ר׳ היו וכ׳ all the pious deeds … were merely flavors, but &c.; a. e.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (18 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: smell (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 3:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.27/#tree)

וּ֠מִֽתְכַּנְּשִׁין אֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנַיָּ֞א סִגְנַיָּ֣א וּפַחֲוָתָא֮ וְהַדָּבְרֵ֣י מַלְכָּא֒ חָזַ֣יִן לְגֻבְרַיָּ֣א אִלֵּ֡ךְ דִּי֩ לָֽא־שְׁלֵ֨ט נוּרָ֜א בְּגֶשְׁמְה֗וֹן וּשְׂעַ֤ר רֵֽאשְׁהוֹן֙ לָ֣א הִתְחָרַ֔ךְ וְסָרְבָּלֵיה֖וֹן לָ֣א שְׁנ֑וֹ וְרֵ֣יחַ נ֔וּר לָ֥א עֲדָ֖ת בְּהֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and.\[were\] gathered the satraps the prefects and the governors and the.counselors of the.king \[they.were\].seeing (et) the men these (diy).that not it.had.had.power the fire over body their and the.hair of their.head not it.was.singed and mantles their not they.were.changed and.\[the\] smell of.fire not it.had.touched on them

*JPS 1917:* And the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, and the king's ministers, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power upon their bodies, nor was the hair of their head singed, neither were their cloaks changed, nor had the smell of fire passed on them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e8_5b5_5d9_5d7_5b7.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b5_5d9_5d7_5b7/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

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).