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# מִקְטָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4729

**place of sacrificial smoke** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

place of sacrificial smoke [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4729/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַקְטֵר²: n.m. place of sacrificial smoke [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4729/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. place of sacrificial smoke;—cstr. מִזְבֵּחַ֭ מִקְטַר קְטֹרֶת Ex 30:1 altar, place of offering incense (SS Kau Buhl13 al. n. act. burning).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a place of smoke (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 30:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.30.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.30.1/#tree)

וְעָשִׂ֥יתָ מִזְבֵּ֖חַ מִקְטַ֣ר קְטֹ֑רֶת עֲצֵ֥י שִׁטִּ֖ים תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה אֹתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make an.altar a.place.of.smoke of.incense wood(s) of.acacia you.will.make it

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon; of acacia-wood shalt thou make it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4729.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4729/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).