ὀσφραίνομαι
smell, scent
Where this word appears
Every passage where ὀσφραίνομαι appears in the Greek Septuagint — 11 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 8:21 ὀσφραίνομαι And the Lord God smelled a smell of sweetness, and the Lord God having considered, said, I will not any more curse the earth, because of the works of men, because the imagination of man is intently bent upon evil things from his youth, I will not therefore any more strike all living flesh as I have done.
- Genesis 27:27 ὀσφραίνομαι And he drew near and kissed him, and smelled the smell of his garments, and blessed him, and said, Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of an abundant field, which the Lord has blessed.
- Exodus 30:38 ὀσφραίνομαι Whosoever shall make any in like manner, so as to smell it, shall perish from his people.
- Leviticus 26:31 ὀσφραίνομαι And I will lay your cities waste, and I will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell the savor of your sacrifices.
- Deuteronomy 4:28 ὀσφραίνομαι And you⌃ shall there serve other gods, the works of the hands of men, wood and stones, which can’t see, nor can they hear, nor eat, nor smell.
- Judges 16:9 ὀσφραίνομαι And the liers in wait remained with her in the chamber; and she said to him, the Philistines are upon you, Sampson: and he broke the cords as if any one should break a thread of tow when it has touched the fire, and his strength was not known.
- 1 Samuel 26:19 ὀσφραίνομαι And now let my lord the king hear the word of his servant. If God stirs you up against me, let your offering be acceptable: but if the sons of men, they are cursed before the Lord, for they have cast me out this day so that I should not be established in the inheritance of the Lord, saying, Go, serve other Gods.
- Job 39:25 ὀσφραίνομαι And when the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha! and afar off he smells the war with prancing and neighing.
- Psalms 113:14 ὀσφραίνομαι
- Psalms 134:17 ὀσφραίνομαι they have ears, but they can’t hear; for there is no breath in their mouth.
- Amos 5:21 ὀσφραίνομαι I hate, I reject your feasts, and I will not smell your meat-offerings in your general assemblies.
About this word
About this word
ὀσφραίνομαι (osphraínomai), “smell, scent,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 11 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →