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ἡδύοσμον

hēdýosmon · G2238 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. mint

    Fragrant plant (genus Mentha); up to 2 m high; small, soft leaves with sawlike margins; used in cooking, tea, medicine

    Examples

    Matthew 23:23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the Law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.

    Luke 11:42 “But woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithes of mint, rue, and every kind of garden herb, and yet you ignore justice and the love of God; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.

How it’s used In 1 role

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What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
Mint3.23
In Matthew 23:23, Jesus rebukes the scribes and Pharisees, “For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the Law,” naming this garden herb directly.
Word family 7 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἡδονή hēdonḗ · G2237 · that which is pleasurable, pleasure, desire · 5×ἡδέως hēdéōs · G2234 · gladly, happily · 3×αὐθάδης authádēs · G829 · arrogant, self-willed · 2×ἥδιστα hḗdista · G2236 · with great pleasure · 2×ἡδύοσμονhēdýosmon · G2238ἀσμένως asménōs · G780 · happily, gladly · 1×συνήδομαι synḗdomai · G4913 · to rejoice in, to delight in · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἡδύοσμον (ἡδύς and ὀσμή), sweet-smelling (Pliny,jucundeolens); neuter τό ἡδυοσμος as a…
ἡδύοσμον (ἡδύς and ὀσμή), sweet-smelling (Pliny,jucundeolens); neuter τό ἡδυοσμος as a substantive garden-mint (equivalent to μινθη, Strabo 8, 3, 14, p. 344; Theophrastus, hist. plant. 7, 7; cf. caus. plant. 6, 22 (20)), a kind of small odoriferous herb, with which the Jews used to strew the floors of their houses and synagogues; (it was called by them מִינְתָּא, see Buxtorf, Lex. talm. under the word, p. 1228 (p. 623, Fischer edition)): Mt 23:23; Lk 11:42. (BB. DD.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Plants That Are Not Trees2 occurrences

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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