בְּאֹשׁ
beosh · stench
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H889 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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beosh (בְּאֹשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “stench”.
A stench, the foul smell of what rots.
How to say it
be·osh
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
- The bad smell of rotting things.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Isaiah 34:3
And their slain will be cast out, and from their corpses their stench will rise, and the mountains will melt with their blood.
- Joel 2:20
And the northerner I will remove far from you, and I will drive him into a land dry and desolate, his front toward the eastern sea, and his rear toward the western sea; and his stench will go up, and his foul smell will go up, for he has done great things.
- Amos 4:10
I sent among you pestilence after the manner of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with the capture of your horses; and I made the stench of your camps go up even into your nostrils; yet you did not return to me, declares YHWH.