רוּחַrûwach
Hiph`il (?): smell, perceive odour (Job 39:25; 1 Samuel 26:19; Genesis 8:21)
Pronunciation: roo'-akh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7306
Same root
- יְרִיחוֹYᵉrîychôw · H3405Jericho or Jerecho, a place in Palestine
- רָוַחrâvach · H7304properly, to breathe freely, i.e. revive; by implication, to have ample room
- רוּחַrûwach · H7307wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)
- רַחַתrachath · H7371a winnowing-fork (as blowing the chaff away)
- רֵיחַrêyach · H7381odor (as if blown)
Where it appears
Appears 11 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 8:21 And the Lord was pleased with the aroma of the sacrifice and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of the human race, even though everything they think or imagine is bent toward evil from childhood. I will never again destroy all living things.
- Genesis 27:27 So Jacob went over and kissed him. And when Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he was finally convinced, and he blessed his son. He said, “Ah! The smell of my son is like the smell of the outdoors, which the Lord has blessed!
- Exodus 30:38 Anyone who makes incense like this for personal use will be cut off from the community.”
- Leviticus 26:31 I will make your cities desolate and destroy your places of pagan worship. I will take no pleasure in your offerings that should be a pleasing aroma to me.
- Deuteronomy 4:28 There, in a foreign land, you will worship idols made from wood and stone—gods that neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.
- Judges 16:9 She had hidden some men in one of the inner rooms of her house, and she cried out, “Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!” But Samson snapped the bowstrings as a piece of string snaps when it is burned by a fire. So the secret of his strength was not discovered.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).