Smell
רֵיחַStrong’s H7382reach (re-ach)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Reach is the Aramaic word usually translated “smell of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king’s counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.”
Meaning
- Smell, odour
How it's translated
- and smell of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
רֵיחַ reach · smell
smell, odour Aramaic of re.ach (רֵיחַ "aroma" H7381)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “smell” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SMELL, verb transitive
pret and participle passive smelled, smelt. [I have not found this word in any other language.] TO perceive by the nose, or by the olfactory nerves; to have a sensation excited in certain organs of the nose by particular qualities of a body, which are transmitted in fine particles, often form a distance; as, to smell a rose; to smell perfumes.
All definitions and other forms of “smell”
SMELL, verb intransitive
- To affect the olfactory nerves; to have an odor or particualr scent; followed by of; as to smell of smoke; to smell of musk.
- To have a particular tincuture or smack or any quality; as, a report smells of calumny. [Not elegant.]
- To practice smelling. Exodus 30:38
- To exercise sagacity.
SMELL, noun
- The sense of faculty by which through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves; or the faculty of perceiving by the organs of the nose; one of the five senses.
- Scent; odor; the quality of bodies which affects the olfactory organs; as the smell of mint; the smell of geranium.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.