קִטֵּר
qiṭṭêr · H7002 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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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
ExamplesJeremiah 44:21 “As for the smoking sacrifices that you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your forefathers, your kings and your leaders, and the people of the land, did the LORD not remember them, and did all of this not come into His mind?
How it’s used In 1 role
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the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קָטַרto burn incense, to burn (offerings) 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 3 entries
- Sacrifice002003002021
- The word describes offering incense in sacrificial smoke, illustrated by the "smoking sacrifices" the people of Judah burned in the cities and streets of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 44:21).
- Smell002004001007
- The same reference to "smoking sacrifices" directly attests the aromatic, smoke-producing sense of the word (Jeremiah 44:21).
- Spices001002005014
- This sense, reflected in the word's own gloss "incense," is not independently illustrated by the single sampled citation, which describes burned sacrifices generally rather than naming a specific spice or incense ingredient.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7002. qitter קטֵּר. (Ol§ 182 e) noun feminine incense; — Jer 44:21 (on Gender see…
קטֵּר. (Ol§ 182 e) noun feminine incense; — Jer 44:21 (on Gender see AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 100, who reads אֹתָהּ for אֹתָם and so RothstKau Gie; Gie also קְטֹרֶת.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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