Strong's Definition
to smoke, i.e. turn into fragrance by fire (especially as an act of worship)
Derivation: a primitive root (identical with through the idea of fumigation in a close place and perhaps thus driving out the occupants);
KJV Usage: burn (incense, sacrifice) (upon), (altar for) incense, kindle, offer (incense, a sacrifice).
TWOT Reference: 2011,e,g
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
קָטַר (qa.tar) — to offer: burn. : burn v 1) to sacrifice, burn incense, burn sacrifices, make sacrifices smoke 1a) (Piel) 1a1) to make sacrifices smoke 1a2) to sacrifice 1b) (Pual) to smoke a sacrifice 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to make sacrifices smoke 1c2) to cause incense to smoke, offer incense 1c3) to make smoke upon 1d) (Hophal) to be made to smoke
מֻקְטָר (muq.tar) — incense. v incense
מְקַטֵרָה (me.qa.te.rah) — incense-altar. incense-altar
קָטַר (qa.tar) — to offer: offer. : offer v 1) to sacrifice, burn incense, burn sacrifices, make sacrifices smoke 1a) (Piel) 1a1) to make sacrifices smoke 1a2) to sacrifice 1b) (Pual) to smoke a sacrifice 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to make sacrifices smoke 1c2) to cause incense to smoke, offer incense 1c3) to make smoke upon 1d) (Hophal) to be made to smoke
קָטַר (qa.tar) — to offer: to perfume. : perfume v 1) to sacrifice, burn incense, burn sacrifices, make sacrifices smoke 1a) (Piel) 1a1) to make sacrifices smoke 1a2) to sacrifice 1b) (Pual) to smoke a sacrifice 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to make sacrifices smoke 1c2) to cause incense to smoke, offer incense 1c3) to make smoke upon 1d) (Hophal) to be made to smoke
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · קטר
Spices
perfume, incense = substance ◄ made from tree gum or bark, ► burnt in a censer or open fire to produce a sweet smell
noun f · קטר
verb · מִקְטֶרֶת · קְטֹורָה · קְטֻרֹות · קְטֹרֶת · קִיטֹר · מִקְטָר · קְטוּרָה · קִטְרֹון
Sacrifice | verb pi, verb hif, verb hof
to set alight, to burn = causative action by which humans set alight and cause smoke to rise from the sacrificial fat parts of an animal, of grain and other offerings, including incense ► as an offering to a deity
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Smell | verb pu'al
(people moving like a column of) perfumed (smoke) = causative action by which humans cause smoke to have a strong scent ◄ by burning spices along with the object that is being burned; ≈ regarded as pleasing to the God or the gods
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[קָטַר] 116 vb. denom. Pi. Hiph. make sacrifices smoke, send them up in smoke Pi. make sacrifices smoke, offer them by burning
Pu. fumigated with myrrh
Hiph. make sacrifices smoke
cause incense to smoke, offer incense
make smoke upon
Hoph. be made to smoke as a sacrifice
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מֻקְטָר n.m. incense;—abs. Mal 1:11 ref
[מְקַטֵרָה] n.f. incense-altar;—pl. abs. 2 Ch 30:14. ref