Stench
בְּאֹשׁStrong’s H0889beosh (be-osh)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Beosh is the Hebrew word usually translated “stench their”, “stench its” and “stench of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.”
Meaning
- Stench, foul odour
How it's translated
- stench their 1
- stench its 1
- stench of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
- Joel 1
- Amos 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Joel 2:20But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.
- Amos 4:10I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
בְּאֹשׁ beosh · stench
stench, foul odour
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “stench” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STENCH, noun
[See Stink.]
An ill smell; offensive odor.
All definitions and other forms of “stench”
STENCH, verb transitive
- To cause to emit a hateful smell. [Not in use.]
- To stanch; to stop. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.