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# קְטוּרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6989

**Keturah** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Keturah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6989/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קְטוּרָה: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6989/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. a wife of Abraham, after Sarah’s death, Gn 25:1, 4; 1 Ch 1:32, 33; Χεττουρα.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Keturah (3); \[was\] Keturah (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 25:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.1/#tree)

וַיֹּ֧סֶף אַבְרָהָ֛ם וַיִּקַּ֥ח אִשָּׁ֖ה וּשְׁמָ֥הּ קְטוּרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.repeated Abraham and he.took a.wife and name her \[was\].Keturah

*JPS 1917:* And Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.

[Genesis 25:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.4/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֣י מִדְיָ֗ן עֵיפָ֤ה וָעֵ֙פֶר֙ וַחֲנֹ֔ךְ וַאֲבִידָ֖ע וְאֶלְדָּעָ֑ה כָּל־אֵ֖לֶּה בְּנֵ֥י קְטוּרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Midian \[were\].Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah all these \[were\].the.sons of.Keturah

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6989/): 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).