Midvash

בְּאֹשׁbᵉʼôsh

stench (Amos 4:10; Joel 2:20; Isaiah 34:3)

Pronunciation: be-oshe' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H889

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • Isaiah 34:3 Their dead will be left unburied, and the stench of rotting bodies will fill the land. The mountains will flow with their blood.
  • Joel 2:20 I will drive away these armies from the north. I will send them into the parched wastelands. Those in the front will be driven into the Dead Sea, and those at the rear into the Mediterranean. The stench of their rotting bodies will rise over the land.” Surely the Lord has done great things!
  • Amos 4:10 “I sent plagues on you like the plagues I sent on Egypt long ago. I killed your young men in war and led all your horses away. The stench of death filled the air! But still you would not return to me,” says the Lord.

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).