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# רֵיחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7381

**scent** — used 58 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

scent [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7381/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֵיחַ: n.m. scent, odour [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7381/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Je 48:11 scent, odour (proposes breath);—abs. Ct 2:13 +, usually cstr. Gn 8:21 +; sf. רֵיחוֹ Je 48:11 Ct 1:12, רֵיחֵנוּ Ex 5:21;— scent, odour, of plants and fields Gn 27:27 (JE) Ct 1:12; 2:3; 4:11; 7:14 Ho 14:7, of ointments Ct 1:13; 4:10, of pers. and garments Gn 27:27(×2) (JE) Ct 4:11; 7:9, of water Jb 14:9; fig. of influence, reputation Ex 5:21 (J) Je 48:11. term. techn., רֵיחַ נִיחֹחַ odour of soothing (to God), tranquillizing odour (of ascending sacrifices, v. נִיחֹחַ) Gn 8:21 (J), elsewhere Ez 6:13; 16:19; 20:28, 41 and P: Ex 29:18, 25, 41 Lv 1:9 + 16 times Lv, Nu 15:3 + 17 times Nu.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 21 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: an odor (24); of an odor (14); the odor (7).

## In the verses

[Job 14:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.9/#tree)

מֵרֵ֣יחַ מַ֣יִם יַפְרִ֑חַ וְעָשָׂ֖ה קָצִ֣יר כְּמוֹ־נָֽטַע׃

*Word for word:* from.\[the\] scent of.water it.will.show.buds and it.will.produce branch\[es\] like a.plant

*JPS 1917:* Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.

[Song of Songs 1:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.1.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.1.12/#tree)

עַד־שֶׁ֤הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ בִּמְסִבּ֔וֹ נִרְדִּ֖י נָתַ֥ן רֵיחֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* until that the king \[was\].at table his nard my it.gave.forth odor its

*JPS 1917:* While the king sat at his table, my spikenard sent forth its fragrance.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7381.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7381/): 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).