Original Word: ἡδύοσμον, ου, τό
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: héduosmon
Phonetic Spelling: (hay-doo'-os-mon)
Definition: sweet smelling
Usage: mint, peppermint.Word Origin
from the same as hédeós and osmé
Definition
sweet smelling
NASB Translation
mint (2).

STRONGS NT 2238: ἡδυοσμος

ἡδυοσμος, ἡδύοσμον (ἡδύς and ὀσμή), sweet-smelling (Pliny,jucundeolens); neuter τό ἡδυοσμος as a substantive garden-mint (equivalent to μινθη, Strabo 8, 3, 14, p. 344; Theophrastus, hist. plant. 7, 7; cf. caus. plant. 6, 22 (20)), a kind of small odoriferous herb, with which the Jews used to strew the floors of their houses and synagogues; (it was called by them מִינְתָּא, see Buxtorf, Lex. talm. under the word, p. 1228 (p. 623, Fischer edition)): Matthew 23:23; Luke 11:42. (BB. DD.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

mint.

Neuter of the compound of the same as hedeos and osme; a sweet-scented plant, i.e. Mint -- mint.

see GREEK hedeos

see GREEK osme

Forms and Transliterations

ηδεία ηδείας ηδύ ηδυοσμον ηδύοσμον ἡδύοσμον ηδύς ηδύσματα ηδύσματος ηδυσμάτων ηδυσμού ηδυφώνου ηδώ ηθάμ eduosmon ēduosmon hedyosmon hedýosmon hēdyosmon hēdýosmon

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