nichoach · pleasing, soothing

What it means

nichoach (נִיחוֹחַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pleasing, soothing”.

"A pleasing aroma" is the way of saying that God receives a sacrifice with favor.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. "Soothing aroma": YHWH gladly accepts the sacrifice.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×3
• Leviticus×17
• Numbers×18
• Ezekiel×4

• Genesis 8:21

  And YHWH smelled the pleasing aroma, and YHWH said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of the human being, for the inclination of the heart of the human being is evil from his youth; and I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

• Exodus 29:18

  You shall offer up in smoke the whole ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to YHWH, a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to YHWH it is.

• Exodus 29:25

  Then you shall take them from their hands and offer them up in smoke on the altar, on top of the burnt offering, as a pleasing aroma before YHWH; it is a fire offering to YHWH.

• Exodus 29:41

  The other lamb you shall offer at twilight, with the same grain offering as the morning and with the same libation you shall offer with it, for a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to YHWH.

• Leviticus 1:9

  Its entrails and its legs he shall wash in water, and the priest shall offer up in smoke all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Leviticus 1:13

  The entrails and the legs he shall wash in water, and the priest shall present all of it and offer it up in smoke on the altar; it is a burnt offering, a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Leviticus 1:17

  He shall tear it open by its wings —he shall not divide it— and the priest shall offer up in smoke it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire; it is a burnt offering, a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Leviticus 2:2

  He shall bring it to the sons of Aaron, the priests, and he shall take from there his full handful of its fine flour and of its oil, with all its frankincense, and the priest shall offer up in smoke its memorial portion on the altar, a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Leviticus 2:9

  The priest shall take up from the grain offering its memorial portion and offer it up in smoke on the altar, a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Leviticus 2:12

  As an offering of firstfruits you may present them to YHWH, but to the altar they shall not go up as a pleasing aroma.

• Leviticus 3:5

  The sons of Aaron shall offer up in smoke it on the altar on top of the burnt offering that is on the wood that is on the fire, a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Leviticus 3:16

  The priest shall offer them up in smoke on the altar; it is food of a fire offering for a pleasing aroma. All fat belongs to YHWH.

• Leviticus 4:31

  All its fat he shall remove, just as the fat is removed from the sacrifice of peace, and the priest shall offer it up in smoke on the altar for a pleasing aroma to YHWH. So the priest shall make expiation for him, and he will be forgiven.

• Leviticus 6:15

  He shall take up from it in his handful some of the fine flour of the grain offering and of its oil, and all the frankincense that is on the grain offering, and offer it up in smoke on the altar as a pleasing aroma, its memorial portion to YHWH.

• Leviticus 6:21

  It shall be made on a griddle with oil; you shall bring it well mixed; you shall present the baked pieces of a grain offering of pieces as a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Leviticus 8:21

  The entrails and the legs he washed in water, and Moses offered up in smoke the whole ram on the altar; it was a burnt offering for a pleasing aroma, it was a fire offering to YHWH, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Leviticus 8:28

  Moses took them from their palms and offered them up in smoke on the altar on top of the burnt offering; they were an ordination offering for a pleasing aroma; it was a fire offering to YHWH.

• Leviticus 17:6

  And the priest shall splash the blood on the altar of YHWH at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and offer up in smoke the fat for a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Leviticus 23:13

  and its grain offering, two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, a fire offering to YHWH, a pleasing aroma; and its libation of wine, a fourth of a hin.

• Leviticus 23:18

  And with the bread you shall present seven lambs without defect, a year old, and one young bull and two rams; they shall be a burnt offering to YHWH, with their grain offering and their libations, a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Leviticus 26:31

  And I will make your cities a ruin and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will not smell your pleasing aroma.

• Numbers 15:3

  and you offer a fire offering to YHWH, a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed times, to make a pleasing aroma to YHWH from the herd or from the flock,

• Numbers 15:7

  and wine for the libation, a third of a hin, you shall present, a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Numbers 15:10

  and wine you shall present for the libation, half a hin, a fire offering of pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Numbers 15:13

  Every native-born shall do these things in this way in presenting a fire offering of pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Numbers 15:14

  And if a resident alien lives with you, or whoever is among you throughout your generations, and he offers a fire offering of pleasing aroma to YHWH, just as you do, so he shall do.

• Numbers 15:24

  then if it was done by oversight, without the knowledge of the community, all the community shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, for a pleasing aroma to YHWH, with its grain offering and its libation according to the rule, and one male goat for a sin offering.

• Numbers 18:17

  But the firstborn of a bull or the firstborn of a sheep or the firstborn of a goat you shall not redeem; they are holy. Their blood you shall splash on the altar, and their fat you shall burn as a fire offering, for a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Numbers 28:2

  “Command the sons of Israel and say to them: My offering, my food for my fire offerings, my pleasing aroma, you shall take care to present to me at its appointed time.

• Numbers 28:6

  It is a continual burnt offering that was offered at Mount Sinai, for a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to YHWH.

• Numbers 28:8

  And the second lamb you shall offer at twilight; like the grain offering of the morning and like its libation you shall offer it, a fire offering of pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Numbers 28:13

  and a tenth each of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, for each lamb; a burnt offering of pleasing aroma, a fire offering to YHWH.

• Numbers 28:24

  Like these you shall offer each day for seven days the food of the fire offering of pleasing aroma to YHWH; besides the continual burnt offering it shall be offered, and its libation.

• Numbers 28:27

  You shall present a burnt offering for a pleasing aroma to YHWH: two young bulls, one ram, seven lambs a year old;

• Numbers 29:2

  You shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasing aroma to YHWH: one young bull, one ram, seven lambs a year old, without defect;

• Numbers 29:6

  besides the burnt offering of the month and its grain offering, and the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their libations, according to their rule, for a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to YHWH.

• Numbers 29:8

  You shall present a burnt offering to YHWH, a pleasing aroma: one young bull, one ram, seven lambs a year old; they shall be without defect for you;

• Numbers 29:13

  You shall present a burnt offering, a fire offering of pleasing aroma to YHWH: thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs a year old; they shall be without defect;

• Numbers 29:36

  You shall present a burnt offering, a fire offering of pleasing aroma to YHWH: one bull, one ram, seven lambs a year old, without defect;

• Ezekiel 6:13

  And you will know that I am YHWH, when their slain are among their idols, around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every leafy tree, and under every dense oak, the place where they gave a pleasing aroma to all their idols.

And 3 more times.