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Savour
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SAVOUR . The word ‘savour’ is used in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] literally for taste , as Matthew 5:19 ‘If the salt have lost his savour,’ and for smell , as Esther 2:12 Esther 2:12 ‘an ointment of sweet savour.’ It is also used figuratively in the sense of reputation , Exodus 5:21 ‘Ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh’ (lit. ‘our smell to stink’ as AVm [Note: Authorized Version margin.] ).
The verb ‘to savour’ is either ‘to taste or smell of,’ as in Pref. to AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ‘to savour more of curiosity than of wisdom’; or ‘to seek out or to search by tasting or smelling,’ used fig. in Mark 8:33 ‘Thou savourest not the things that be of God.’
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Savour'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/s/savour.html. 1909.
Hastings, James. Entry for 'Savour'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/s/savour.html. 1909.
