H7004 - קְטֹרֶת (qᵉṭôreth)

H7004 קְטֹרֶת (qᵉṭôreth) ket-o'-reth

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

incense

Strong's Definition

a fumigation

Derivation: from H6999 (קָטַר);

KJV Usage: (sweet) incense, perfume.

TWOT Reference: 2011a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) incense, smoke, odour of (burning) sacrifice

1a) sweet smoke of sacrifice

1b) incense

1c) perfume

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G2368

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) incense, smoke, odour of (burning) sacrifice 1a) sweet smoke of sacrifice 1b) incense 1c) perfume

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

קְטֹרֶת qeṭôreth BDB Definition: 1) incense, smoke, odour of (burning) sacrifice 1a) sweet smoke of sacrifice 1b) incense 1c) perfume Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H6999 Same Word by TWOT Number: 2011a Total KJV Occurrences: 61

Bible Occurrences (58)

25:6 30:1 30:7 30:8 30:9 30:27 30:35 30:37 31:8 31:11 35:8 35:15 35:28 37:25 37:29 39:38 40:5 40:27

4:7 10:1 16:12 16:13

2:28

6:49 28:18

2:4 13:11 26:16 26:19 29:7

66:15 141:2

27:9

1:13

8:11 16:18 23:41

Exodus 25:6

olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;

Exodus 30:1

You are also to make an altar of acacia wood for the burning of incense.

Exodus 30:7

And Aaron is to burn fragrant incense on it every morning... when he tends the lamps.

Exodus 30:8

When Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he must burn the incense perpetually before the LORD for the generations to come.

Exodus 30:9

On [this altar] you must not offer unauthorized incense or a burnt offering or grain offering; nor are you to pour a drink offering on it.

Exodus 30:27

the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and its utensils, the altar of incense,

Exodus 30:35

and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.

Exodus 30:37

You are never to use... this formula to make incense for yourselves; you shall regard it as holy... to the LORD.