noun · feminine
osfrēsias
Strong’sG3750
the sense of smell
stem osfrēsi-once in the New Testament1 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.
* ὄσφρησις, -εως, ἡ
(ὀσφραίνομαι, to smell),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3750 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidos'-fray-sis
smell (the sense)
Fromfrom a derivative of G3605;
King Jamessmelling.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
the sense of smell, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 the organ of smell, NT+4th c.BC+; αἱ ὀ. Refs 2nd c.AD+
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 | osfrēsias1×ὄσφρησις | osfrēsiais |
| object accusative | osfrēsian | osfrēsiain |
| direct address vocative | osfrēsiar | osfrēsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | osfrēsiau | osfrēsiaiu |
| to, for dative | osfrēsia | osfrēsiai |
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
osfrēsia 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
osfrēsias“sense of smell”subjectnominative singular1×
1 Corinthians 12:17… akoas? ei holem akoas, pou tas osfrēsias?… were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?