Scent
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does.
(2): ( v. i.) To have a smell.
(3): ( v. i.) To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
(4): ( n.) The power of smelling; the sense of smell; as, a hound of nice scent; to divert the scent.
(5): ( v. t.) To imbue or fill with odor; to perfume.
(6): ( n.) That which, issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals; odor; smell; as, the scent of an orange, or of a rose; the scent of musk.
(7): ( n.) Specifically, the odor left by an animal on the ground in passing over it; as, dogs find or lose the scent; hence, course of pursuit; track of discovery.
King James Dictionary [2]
Scent n. L. sentio, to perceive.
1. Odor smell that substance which issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals as the scent of an orange or an apple the scent of musk. The word is applicable to any odor, agreeable or offensive. 2. The power of smelling the smell as a house of nice scent. 3. chase followed by the scent course of pursuit track.
He travelled upon the same scent into Ethiopia.
SCENT,
1. to smell to perceive by the olfactory organs as, to scent game, as a hound. 2. To perfume to imbue or fill with odor, good or bad. Aromatic plants scent the room. some persons scent garments with musk others scent their snuff.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [3]
Jeremiah 48:11 (b) This word is used to describe the unsavory attitude of wicked people. They had a wicked and vile odor in the nostrils of GOD.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
sent : (1) In Hosea 14:7 , "The scent (margin "his memorial") thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon." "Scent" is used for זכר , zekher (so Massoretic Text, but the pointing is uncertain), properly "memorial," whence the Revised Version margin. The English translation comes through the Septuagint which took zkr as "offering of sweet savor," and so "sweet savor." For the "wine of Lebanon" see Wine . If this translation is not right, the alternative is "memorial" in the sense of "renown." (2) Job 14:9; Jeremiah 48:11 for ריח , rēaḥ , "odor." "Scent" of the water in Job 14:9 is poetic for "contact with." (3) The Wisdom of Solomon 11:18 the King James Version has "filthy scents of scattered smoke," where "scent" is used in the obsolete sense of "disagreeable odor." The translation is, however, very loose, and "scents" is a gloss; the Revised Version (British and American) "noisome smoke."
