noun · feminine
euōdias
Strong’sG2175
a sweet smell
stem euōdi-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
εὐωδία, -ας, ἡ
(< εὐώδης, fragrant; < ὄζω) [in LXX for נִיחֹחַ, Ge 8:21, al. (ὀσμὴ εὐωδίας); Si 20:9 24:15, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2175 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, sweet smell, Refs 5th c.BC+; especially of sacrifices, ὀσμὴ -ίας LXX+NT+5th c.BC+: in plural, also, fragrant substances, Refs 1st c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | euōdias1×εὐωδία | euōdiais |
| object accusative | euōdian | euōdiain |
| direct address vocative | euōdiar | euōdiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | euōdiau2×εὐωδίας | euōdiaiu |
| to, for dative | euōdia | euōdiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
euōdia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
euōdias“aroma”subjectnominative singular1×
2 Corinthians 2:15hoti Christou euōdias anō to theo en toi sōzorōntoi …… we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are …
euōdiau“fragrant”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Ephesians 5:2… kai thusian to theo eis osman euōdiau.… Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
Philippians 4:18“sweet smelling”… para Epafroditou teim para vu, osman euōdiau, thusian dektan, euarestan to theo.… your gifts from Epaphroditus. They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.