An agreeable taste or odor, or that quality of objects which appeals to the sense of smell or of taste, Mt 5:13. The sacrifice of Noah and that of Christ were acceptable to God, like the odor of a sweet incense to a man, Ge 8:21Eph 5:2. The chief savor of the apostles’ teaching was welcome by some to their eternal life, and rejected by others to their aggravated condemnation, 2Co 2:15,16.
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American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
A Dictionary of the Holy Bible, American Tract Society, c. 1859, edited by W. W. Rand.