Quick Definition
to stink
Strong's Definition
to smell bad; figuratively, to be offensive morally
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: (make to) be abhorred (had in abomination, loathsome, odious), (cause a, make to) stink(-ing savour), [idiom] utterly.
TWOT Reference: 195
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
בָּאַשׁ (ba.ash) — to stink. 1) to have a bad smell, stink, smell bad 1a) (Qal) to stink, smell bad 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to become odious 1b2) to make oneself odious 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to stink, emit a stinking odour 1c2) to cause to stink 1c3) of wickedness (fig.) 1d) (Hithpael) to make oneself odious 2) (TWOT) to abhor
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · בְּאוּשִׁים · בְּאֹשׁ · בָּאְשָׁה
Smell | verb qal, verb hif | ≈ מקק
to become foul, to stink = process by which objects such as dead animals, plants, or wounds give off a foul odor; ≈ considered repulsive
EXO 7:18 · EXO 7:21 · EXO 8:10 · EXO 16:20 · EXO 16:24 · PSA 38:6 · ISA 50:2
Smell | verb hif
to make stink = process by which dead animals cause something else to give off a foul odor; ≈ considered repulsive
Hate | verb nif, verb hit, verb hif
to become repulsive = process by which humans become repulsive or loathsome to someone else ◄ as a result of antagonistic actions ► resulting in enmity between the parties involved
1SA 13:4 · 1SA 27:12 · 1SA 27:12 · 2SA 10:6 · 2SA 16:21 · 1CH 19:6 · PRO 13:5 · ISA 30:5
Hate | verb hif
to make repulsive = causative action by which humans cause other humans to be or become repulsive or loathsome to someone else ◄ as a result of antagonistic actions ► resulting in enmity between the parties involved
Hate | verb hif
Collocation: באשׁ רֵיחַ
to spoil someone's smell > reputation = literally: to cause (someone's) odor to give off a bad smell in the eyes of someone else; hence: = process by which humans cause other humans to become repulsive or loathsome in the eyes of someone else ◄ as a result of antagonistic actions ► resulting in enmity between the parties involved
1 ISA 30:5 MT | RSV NRSV ESV "comes to shame" NIV "be put to shame" NJPS "come to shame" NJB "be disappointed" = בושׁ
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
בָּאַשׁ vb. have a bad smell, stink Qal stink
Niph. only fig. make oneself odious, become odious
Hiph. emit a stinking odour
cause to stink
Hithp. they had made thmselves odious
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