STRONGS G2238:
ἡδύοσμος,
-ον, (
ἡδύς and
ὀσμή),
sweet-smelling (Pliny,
jucunde olens); neuter
τὸ ἡδ. as a substantive
garden-mint (equivalent to
μίνθη, 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.;
Löw, Aram. Pflanzennamen, § 200.]
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