εὐωδία,
-ας,
ἡ, (from
εὐώδης; and this from
εὖ and
ὄζω, perfect
ὄδωδα);
a. a sweet smell, fragrance, (Xenophon, Plato, Plutarch, Herodian, others); metaphorically,
Χριστοῦ εὐωδία ἐσμὲν 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 Corinthians 2:15.
b. a fragrant or
sweet-smelling thing, incense: Diodorus 1, 84; 1 Esdr. 1:11, etc.; hence,
ὀσμὴ 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,
Exodus 29:18;
Leviticus 1:9, 13, 17, etc., agreeably to the ancient [anthropopathic] notion that God smells and is pleased with the odor of sacrifices,
Genesis 8:21; in the
N. T. by a metaphor borrowed from sacrifices,
a thing well-pleasing to God:
Ephesians 5:2;
Philippians 4:18, [Winer's Grammar, 605 (562) cf. 237 (222)].
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's
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Genesis
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8:21
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Exodus
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29:18
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Leviticus
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1:9; 1:13; 1:17
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2 Corinthians
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2:15
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Ephesians
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5:2
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Philippians
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4:18
