Stench
צַחֲנָהStrong’s H6709tsachanah (tsa-cha-nah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tsachanah is the Hebrew word usually translated “foul smell its”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“But 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.”
Meaning
- Stench, foul odour
How it's translated
- foul smell its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joel 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
צַחֲנָה tsachanah · 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.