Aroma
רֵיחַStrong’s H7381reach (re-ach)
Appears in 55 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Reach is the Hebrew word usually translated “odor of”, “smell of” and “like smell of”. It appears in 55 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.”
Meaning
- Scent, fragrance, aroma, odourscent, odour · odour of soothing (technical term for sacrifice to God)
How it's translated
- an odor of 24
- to an odor of 15
- odor of 4
- and odor of 3
- smell of 2
- like smell of 1
- odor our 1
- from scent of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 18
- Leviticus 17
- Song of Solomon 7
- Exodus 4
- Ezekiel 4
- Genesis 2
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 27:27And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed:
- Exodus 5:21And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
- Exodus 29:18And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt offering unto the LORD: it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
- Exodus 29:25And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
- Exodus 29:41And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
- Leviticus 1:9But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
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Hebrew dictionary
רֵיחַ reach · aroma
1) scent, fragrance, aroma, odour 1a) scent, odour 1b) odour of soothing (technical term for sacrifice to God) Aramaic equivalent: re.ach (רֵיחַ "smell" H7382)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.