Lexical Summary hēdyosmon: sweet smelling Original Word: ἡδύοσμονTransliteration: hēdyosmon Phonetic Spelling: (hay-doo'-os-mon) Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Short Definition: sweet smelling Meaning: sweet smelling Strong's Concordance mint. Neuter of the compound of the same as hedeos and osme; a sweet-scented plant, i.e. Mint -- mint. see GREEK hedeos see GREEK osme Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2238: ἡδυοσμοςἡδυοσμος, ἡδύοσμον (ἡδύς and ὀσμή), sweet-smelling (Pliny,jucundeolens); neuter τό ἡδυοσμος as a substantive garden-mint (equivalent to μινθη, Strabo 8, 3, 14, p. 344; Theophrastus, hist. plant. 7, 7; cf. caus. plant. 6, 22 (20)), a kind of small odoriferous herb, with which the Jews used to strew the floors of their houses and synagogues; (it was called by them מִינְתָּא, see Buxtorf, Lex. talm. under the word, p. 1228 (p. 623, Fischer edition)): Matthew 23:23; Luke 11:42. (BB. DD.) |