Word

ὄζω

ózō · G3605 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to stink, to have a bad smell

    To cause a foul-smelling odor

    Examples

    John 11:39 Jesus said, “Remove the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there will be a stench, for he has been dead four days.”

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 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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In the other Testament 1 word
בָּאַשׁ bâʼash · H887 · to become foul, to stink, to make stink
The primary Hebrew verb for emitting a foul smell, the direct semantic equivalent of ὄζω in its dominant ill-odor sense (Exod 7:18, 21; 16:24; Amos 4:10).
Semantic domains 1 entry
To stink, to have a bad smell79.47
Describing the raising of Lazarus, John 11:39 states Martha said, “Lord, by this time there will be a stench, for he has been dead four days,” where the underlying verb for the stench rendered here is this same word, of an odor being given off.
Word family 4 words

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

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (from root ὀδ, cf. Latin and English odor etc.; Curtius, § 288); from Homer down; to give…
(from root ὀδ, cf. Latin and English odor etc.; Curtius, § 288); from Homer down; to give out an odor (either good or bad), to smell, emit a smell: of a decaying corpse, Jn 11:39; cf. Ex 8:14.

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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