ὄσφρησις
osphrēsis
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Greek
sense of smell
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Osphresis denotes the faculty of smelling, named as a bodily function alongside sight and hearing.
The term names the faculty of smelling in a comparison that asks what would remain if the whole body consisted only of hearing.
Senses in use
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The bodily faculty of smelling · dominant
In 1 Corinthians 12:17, the nominative singular feminine noun names what would be absent if the whole body were hearing; the APB renders the clause, "where would the sense of smell be?"
In the Anselm Project Bible: In 1 Corinthians 12:17, the APB presents the term as "the sense of smell" in a rhetorical comparison of bodily functions.