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Strong's #2238 - ἡδύοσμον
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- sweet smelling, garden mint
- a kind of small odoriferous herb, with which the Jews used to scatter on the floors of their houses and synagogues
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ἡδυìοσμον
Neuter of a compound of the same as G2234 and G3744
ἡδυοσμος, ἡδύοσμον (ἡδύς and ὀσμή), sweet-smelling (Pliny,jucunde olens); 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.)
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* ἡδύ -οσμος , -ον
(<ἡδύς , ὀσμή ),
sweet-smelling; as subst., τὸ ἡ ., mint: Matthew 23:23, Luke 11:42.†
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
Τὸ ἡδύοσμον, the popular name for μίνθη, ";mint"; (Vg. mentha), in Matthew 23:23, Luke 11:42, survives in MGr in the form δυ ̰όσμος, ";jasmine.";
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Derivative Copyright © 2015 by Allan Loder.
