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Sweet odour, a city on the northern border of Palestine (Num. 34:9), south-east of Hama

...l, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.

...Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon and aspalathus, and I yielded a pleasant odour like the best myrrh, as galbanum, and onyx, and sweet storax, and as the fu

(Heb. shum, from its strong odour), mentioned only once (Num. 11:5). The garlic common in Eastern countries i

...in the Red Sea. The opercula of these shell-fish when burned emit a strong odour "like castoreum." This was an ingredient in the sacred incense.

...aving a bad smell," referring to some weed perhaps which has an unpleasant odour. Or it may be regarded as simply any noisome weed, such as the "tares" or d

...meat-offering (Lev. 2:1, 16; 6:15; 24:7). When burnt it emitted a fragrant odour, and hence the incense became a symbol of the Divine name (Mal. 1:11; Cant.

...gold and silver glowing in a furnace. Moreover, we perceived such a sweet odour [coming from the pile], as if frankincense or some such precious spices had

...ke almond-trees. And when one burnt it, it smelt sweeter than any fragrant odour.