Savor
SAVOR
An agreeable taste or odor, or that quality of objects which appeals to the sense of smell or of taste, Mat 5:13 . The sacrifice of Noah and that of Christ were acceptable to God, like the odor of a sweet incense to a man, Gen 8:21 Zep 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 .
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Savor
(usually , rich, a smell or scent, as elsewhere rendered; , elsewhere odor; but a perfume is Chald. ., nichoth, incense; ; and a stink is Hebrews ). Besides its literal sense, this word is used metaphorically to imply character or reputation, and also the degree of acceptance with which any person or thing is received (2Co 2:14, etc.). In Mat 16:23; Mar 8:33, , to think, is rendered savor. in the sense of being flavored with (or, as the old Saxon use of the verb seems to warrant, in the entirely different signification of being mended; see Bible Educator, 4, 208). So in Mat 5:13, , to become foolish, is applied to the loss of that sharp quality in salt by which it renders other bodies agreeable to the taste. SEE SALT.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Savor
saver (, reah; , osme; (1) The primary meaning of the word is taste, flavor (from Latin sapor, taste). So in Mat 5:13; Luk 14:34, if the salt have lost its savor (, moranthe, become tasteless, insipid, so as to lose its characteristic preserving virtue). (2) But generally it has the meaning of smell, odor: (a) once of evil odor: Its stench shall come up, and its ill savor shall come up (Joe 2:20); (b) elsewhere in the sense of pleasant smell. In the Old Testament, with the exception of Exo 5:21 and the King James Version Son 1:3 (the Revised Version (British and American) fragrance), it is always accompanied by the adjective sweet. It stands for the smell of sacrifices and oblations, in agreement with the ancient anthropomorphic idea that God smells and is pleased with the fragrance of sacrifices (e.g. Yahweh smelled the sweet savor, Gen 8:21; to make a sweet savor unto Yahweh, Num 15:3; and frequently). In the New Testament, savor in the sense of smell is used metaphorically: (a) once the metaphor is borrowed from the incense which attends the victor’s triumphal procession; God is said to make manifest through His apostles the savor of his knowledge in every place as He leadeth them in triumph in Christ (2Co 2:14; see TRIUMPH. (b) Elsewhere the metaphor is borrowed from the fragrant smell of the sacrifices. The apostles are a sweet savor of Christ unto God (2Co 2:15), i.e. they are, as it were, a sweet odor for God to smell, an odor which is pleasing to God, even though its effect upon men varies (to some it is a savor from death unto death, i.e. such as is emitted by death and itself causes death; to others it is a savor from life unto life, 2Co 2:16). By the same sacrificial metaphor, Christ’s offering of Himself to God is said to be for a sweet smelling savor (Eph 5:2 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) for an odor of a sweet smell; the same phrase is used in Phi 4:18 of acts of kindness to Paul, which were a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God). (3) Once it is used in the figurative sense of reputation: Ye have made our savor to be abhorred (literally, our smell to stink) in the eyes of Pharaoh (Exo 5:21). Compare the English phrase, to be in bad odor.
The verb to savor means: (1) intransitively, to taste or smell of, to partake of the quality of something, as in the Preface of the King James Version, to savour more of curiosity than wisdome, or (2) transitively, to perceive by the taste or smell, to discern: thou savourest not the things that be of God (the King James Version Mat 16:23; Mar 8:33, the Revised Version (British and American) mindest; , phrones; Vulgate (Jerome’s Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) sapis). The adjective savory occurs only in Gen 27:4, Gen 27:7, Gen 27:9, Gen 27:14, Gen 27:17, Gen 27:31 (savory food) and the Revised Version (British and American) Isa 30:24 (margin salted).