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Lexicon :: Strong's H5207 - nîḥōaḥ

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נִיחֹחַ
Transliteration
nîḥōaḥ
Pronunciation
nee-kho'-akh
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1323c

Variant Spellings

Variant spellings for this word: ניחח (Strongs and Gesenius) ניחוח (Strongs)

Strong’s Definitions

נִיחוֹחַ nîychôwach, nee-kho'-akh; or נִיחֹחַ nîychôach; from H5117; properly, restful, i.e. pleasant; abstractly, delight:—sweet (odour).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 43x

The KJV translates Strong's H5207 in the following manner: sweet (42x), sweet odours (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 43x
The KJV translates Strong's H5207 in the following manner: sweet (42x), sweet odours (1x).

  1. soothing, quieting, tranquillising

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נִיחוֹחַ nîychôwach, nee-kho'-akh; or נִיחֹחַ nîychôach; from H5117; properly, restful, i.e. pleasant; abstractly, delight:—sweet (odour).
STRONGS H5207: Abbreviations
נִיחֹחַ and (Leviticus 1:9) נִיחוֺחַ 43 noun [masculine] a quieting, soothing, tranquillizing (compare I. נַחַת Job 36:16) (ריח ניחח also Ecclus 45:16c; on formative see 0l§ 187 b) Sta§ 233 BaNB § 142 Köii. 1, 151. 489, where, after PhilippiBas ii. 362, יִ֯ explanation as dissimilation from וֺ); — absolute נ׳ Genesis 8:21 +; suffix נִיחֹתִי Numbers 28:2, נִיחֹחֲכֶם Leviticus 26:31, נִיחוֺחֵיהֶם Ezekiel 20:28; — a soothing, tranquillizing, only in phrase רֵיח נ׳ = soothing, tranquillizing odour of sacrifices acceptable to י׳ Genesis 8:21 (J), Exodus 29:18, 25, 41; Leviticus 1:9, 13, 17 + 32 times P. Ezekiel 20:41; of sacrifice to idols Ezekiel 6:13; Ezekiel 16:19; Ezekiel 20:28.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H5208.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

8:21; 8:21

Exodus

29:18; 29:25; 29:41

Leviticus

1:9; 1:9; 1:13; 1:17; 26:31

Numbers

28:2

Job

36:16

Ezekiel

6:13; 16:19; 20:28; 20:28; 20:41

H5207

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Strong's Number H5207 matches the Hebrew נִיחֹחַ (nîḥōaḥ),
which occurs 43 times in 43 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:21 - And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse[fn] the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:18 - and burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the LORD. It is a pleasing aroma, a food offering[fn] to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:25 - Then you shall take them from their hands and burn them on the altar on top of the burnt offering, as a pleasing aroma before the LORD. It is a food offering to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:41

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:41 - The other lamb you shall offer at twilight, and shall offer with it a grain offering and its drink offering, as in the morning, for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:9 - but its entrails and its legs he shall wash with water. And the priest shall burn all of it on the altar, as a burnt offering, a food offering[fn] with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:13 - but the entrails and the legs he shall wash with water. And the priest shall offer all of it and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:17 - He shall tear it open by its wings, but shall not sever it completely. And the priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:2 - and bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests. And he shall take from it a handful of the fine flour and oil, with all of its frankincense, and the priest shall burn this as its memorial portion on the altar, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:9 - And the priest shall take from the grain offering its memorial portion and burn this on the altar, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:12 - As an offering of firstfruits you may bring them to the LORD, but they shall not be offered on the altar for a pleasing aroma.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:5 - Then Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar on top of the burnt offering, which is on the wood on the fire; it is a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:16 - And the priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering with a pleasing aroma. All fat is the LORD’s.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 4:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:31 - And all its fat he shall remove, as the fat is removed from the peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasing aroma to the LORD. And the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:15 - And one shall take from it a handful of the fine flour of the grain offering and its oil and all the frankincense that is on the grain offering and burn this as its memorial portion on the altar, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:21 - It shall be made with oil on a griddle. You shall bring it well mixed, in baked[fn] pieces like a grain offering, and offer it for a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:21 - He washed the entrails and the legs with water, and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering for the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:28 - Then Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering. This was an ordination offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:6 - And the priest shall throw the blood on the altar of the LORD at the entrance of the tent of meeting and burn the fat for a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:13 - And the grain offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah[fn] of fine flour mixed with oil, a food offering to the LORD with a pleasing aroma, and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, a fourth of a hin.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:18 - And you shall present with the bread seven lambs a year old without blemish, and one bull from the herd and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to the LORD, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:31 - And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing aromas.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:3 - and you offer to the LORD from the herd or from the flock a food offering[fn] or a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed feasts, to make a pleasing aroma to the LORD,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:7 - And for the drink offering you shall offer a third of a hin of wine, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:10 - And you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:13 - Every native Israelite shall do these things in this way, in offering a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:14 - And if a stranger is sojourning with you, or anyone is living permanently among you, and he wishes to offer a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD, he shall do as you do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:24 - then if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, all the congregation shall offer one bull from the herd for a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the rule, and one male goat for a sin offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:17 - But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar and shall burn their fat as a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:2 - “Command the people of Israel and say to them, ‘My offering, my food for my food offerings, my pleasing aroma, you shall be careful to offer to me at its appointed time.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 28:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:6 - It is a regular burnt offering, which was ordained at Mount Sinai for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 28:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:8 - The other lamb you shall offer at twilight. Like the grain offering of the morning, and like its drink offering, you shall offer it as a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 28:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:13 - and a tenth of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for every lamb; for a burnt offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 28:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:24 - In the same way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD. It shall be offered besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 28:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:27 - but offer a burnt offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD: two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:2 - and you shall offer a burnt offering, for a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one bull from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:6 - besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and its grain offering, and the regular burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offering, according to the rule for them, for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:8 - but you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma: one bull from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old: see that they are without blemish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:13 - And you shall offer a burnt offering, a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD, thirteen bulls from the herd, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:36 - but you shall offer a burnt offering, a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13 - And you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing aroma to all their idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:19 - Also my bread that I gave you—I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:28 - For when I had brought them into the land that I swore to give them, then wherever they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their pleasing aromas, and there they poured out their drink offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:41

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:41 - As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered. And I will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.
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