Definition

to smell bad; figuratively, to be offensive morally

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• (make to) be abhorred (had in abomination
• loathsome
• odious)
• (cause a
• make to) stink(-ing savour)
• utterly

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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