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# קְטֹרֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7004

**smoke** — used 60 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

smoke [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7004/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קְטֹ֫רֶת: n.f. smoke, odour of sacrifice, incense [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7004/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. smoke, odour of (burning) sacrifice, incense;—ק׳ abs. Ex 30:1 +; cstr. 25:6 +; sf. קְטָרְתִּי Ez 16:18; 23:41;— sweet smoke of sacrifice, ‖ מנחה Is 1:13 ψ 141:2, קְ׳ אֵילִים 66:15, לְהַקְטִיר ק׳ 1 S 2:28 (?). incense, ק׳ (ה)סמים Ex 25:6; 30:7; 31:11; 40:27 + 9 times; ק׳ תמיד Ex 30:8, ק׳ רֹקַח v 35, הק׳ alone v 37 Lv 16:13; Nu 16:35; 17:12; so ק׳ 16:7, 17, 18; 17:5, 11; 2 Ch 29:7, ק׳ זָרָה Ex 30:9, ענן הק׳ Lv 16:13; Ez 8:11, also of אשׁ זרה Lv 10:1 (illegal worship); in offering of the princes Nu 7:14 + 11 times 7, cf. v 86. Altar of incense is מזבח מקטר ק׳ Ex 30:1, מ׳ הק׳ זהב 1 Ch 28:18, מ׳ הזהב לק׳ Ex 40:5, מ׳ ק׳ הסמים Lv 4:7, מ׳ הק׳ Ex 30:27 + 6 times perfume, ‖ שֶׁמֶן Ez 16:18; 23:41 Pr 27:9.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 33 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: incense (46); the incense (10); \[the\] smoke (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 7:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.7.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.7.14/#tree)

כַּ֥ף אַחַ֛ת עֲשָׂרָ֥ה זָהָ֖ב מְלֵאָ֥ה קְטֹֽרֶת׃

*Word for word:* a.pan one ten gold full incense

*JPS 1917:* one golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense;

[Numbers 7:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.7.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.7.20/#tree)

כַּ֥ף אַחַ֛ת עֲשָׂרָ֥ה זָהָ֖ב מְלֵאָ֥ה קְטֹֽרֶת׃

*Word for word:* a.pan one ten gold full incense

*JPS 1917:* one golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7004.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7004/): 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).