Exodus 7:21
And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
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Stank
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2 Samuel 10:6
And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.
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בָּאַשׁ
bâʼash · baw-ash'
4 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
to smell bad; figuratively, to be offensive morally
Strong's KJV usage: (make to) be abhorred (had in abomination, loathsome, odious), (cause a, make to) stink(-ing savour), × utterly.
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Strong's first: Exodus 7:21Strong's last: 2 Samuel 10:6
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And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
H887
And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
H887
Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
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stank
STANK, adjective Weak; worn out. [Not in use.]
STANK, verb intransitive To sigh. [Not used.]
STANK, old preterit tense of stink. Stunk is now used.
STANK, noun [See Stanch.] A dam or mound to stop water. [Local.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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