Lexicon héduosmon: sweet smelling Original Word: ἡδύοσμον, ου, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: héduosmon Phonetic Spelling: (hay-doo'-os-mon) Short Definition: mint, peppermint Definition: mint, peppermint. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom the same as hédeós and osméDefinitionsweet smelling NASB Translationmint (2).
Thayer's 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.)
Strong's 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 |
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