Open English Translation (OET)

Koine Greek wordlink #118177

SR GNT 1 Cor 12:17 ὄσφρησις (osfraʸsis) ‘hearing where is the smelling’ Strongs=37500 Lemma=osfrēsis^*
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=feminine number=singular
Year=59 AD

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Only use of identical word form ὄσφρησις (N-NFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ὄσφρησις’ (N-NFS) is always and only glossed as ‘smelling’.

1 Cor 12:17 ‘hearing where is the smelling’ SR GNT 1 Cor 12:17 word 14

OET-LV: 17 If all the body were an_eye, where is the hearing? If all were hearing, where is the smelling? (CO1_12:17)

OET-RV: 17 If your whole body was an eye, how could you hear? But then, if your whole body was an ear, how could you smell anything? (CO1 12:17)

^*Note: This is also the only occurrence of the word root (lemma) ‘osfrēsis’ in the Greek originals.

Key: N=noun NFS=nominative,feminine,singular