εὐωδία
euōdía · G2175 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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aroma, fragrance
A pleasant or sweet-smelling odor
Examples2 Corinthians 2:15 For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing:
Ephesians 5:2 and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.
Philippians 4:18 But I have received everything in full and have an abundance; I am amply supplied, having received from Epaphroditus what you have sent, a fragrant aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ΧριστόςChrist, Messiah 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὀσμήsmell 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- נִיחוֹחַ nîychôwach · H5207 · soothing
- Greek εὐωδία and Hebrew נִיחוֹחַ both denote pleasant fragrance, especially in sacrificial contexts describing offerings acceptable to God, and the Septuagint consistently uses this translation pairing for the ritual terminology of a pleasing aroma.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Aroma, fragrance79.46
- In 2 Corinthians 2:15, Paul writes, “we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved, and among those who are perishing,” naming this pleasing aroma.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon εὐωδίας, ἡ (from εὐώδης; and this from εὖ and ὄζω, perfect ὄδωδα); a. a sweet smell,…
a. a sweet smell, fragrance, (Xenophon, Plato, Plutarch, Herodian, others); metaphorically, Χριστοῦ εὐωδία ἐσμεν τῷ Θεῷ, i. e. (dropping the figurative) our efficiency in which the power of Christ himself is at work is well-pleasing to God, 2 Cor 2:15.
b. a fragrant or sweet-smelling thing, incense: Diodorus 1, 84; 1 Esdr. 1:11, etc.; hence, ὀσμή εὐωδίας, an odor of something sweet-smelling, in the Sept. often for רֵיחַ־נִיחוחַ, an odor of acquiescence, satisfaction; a sweet odor, spoken of the smell of sacrifices and oblations, Ex 29:18; Lev 1:9, Lev 1:13, Lev 1:17, etc., agreeably to the ancient (anthropopathic) notion that God smells and is pleased with the odor of sacrifices, Gen 8:21; in the N. T. by a metaphor borrowed from sacrifices, a thing well-pleasing to God: Eph 5:2; Phm 4:18 (Winer's Grammar, 605 (562) cf. 237 (222)).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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