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# קטר

Biblical Hebrew

**thick 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

thick smoke [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5d8_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** (√ of foll.; cf. Assyrian ḳutru (with ת) smoke; Talm. 𝔗 קִיטְרָא, קוטְרָא (thick) smoke; Arabic قَتَرَ smoke (said of fire); usually exhale odour (especially of roast meat); Assyrian ḳutrinnu, incense-offering; Sab. מקטר censer CIS iv. nos. 26, 1. 6; 30, 1. 4; Ethiopic ቅታሬ incense; Egyptian ḳatalƟa Bondi74 ff., kataruti̥ WMMAs. u. Eur. 97 = קְטֹרֶת, קְטָרוֹת; NH \[קָטַר\] smoke (said of incense)).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Malachi 1:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.1.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.1.11/#tree)

כִּ֣י מִמִּזְרַח־שֶׁ֜מֶשׁ וְעַד־מְבוֹא֗וֹ גָּד֤וֹל שְׁמִי֙ בַּגּוֹיִ֔ם וּבְכָל־מָק֗וֹם מֻקְטָ֥ר מֻגָּ֛שׁ לִשְׁמִ֖י וּמִנְחָ֣ה טְהוֹרָ֑ה כִּֽי־גָד֤וֹל שְׁמִי֙ בַּגּוֹיִ֔ם אָמַ֖ר יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* (dm) from.\[the\] rising of.\[the\].sun and to setting its \[is\].great name my among the nations and in every place incense \[is.being\].brought.near to name my and an.offering a.pure (dm) \[is\].great name my among the nations he.says Yahweh of.hosts

*JPS 1917:* For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same My name is great among the nations; and in every place offerings are presented unto My name, even pure oblations; for My name is great among the nations, saith the LORD of hosts.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e7_5d8_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5d8_5e8/): 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).