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title: קְטוּרָה — Keturah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קְטוּרָה (6989), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: Keturah. BDB 1906: n.pr.f. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קְטוּרָה

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«קְטוּרָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Keturah** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 6989 · **BDB:** קְטוּרָה

### Glosses

of.Keturah (3); \[was\].Keturah (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Keturah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6989/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.f. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6989/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. a wife of Abraham, after Sarah’s death, Gn 25:1, 4; 1 Ch 1:32, 33; Χεττουρα.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קְטוּרָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6989/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 25:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.1/)

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וַיֹּ֧סֶף אַבְרָהָ֛ם וַיִּקַּ֥ח אִשָּׁ֖ה וּשְׁמָ֥הּ קְטוּרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.repeated Abraham and he.took a.wife and name her \[was\].Keturah

*JPS 1917:* And Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.

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[Genesis 25:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.4/)

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וּבְנֵ֣י מִדְיָ֗ן עֵיפָ֤ה וָעֵ֙פֶר֙ וַחֲנֹ֔ךְ וַאֲבִידָ֖ע וְאֶלְדָּעָ֑ה כָּל־אֵ֖לֶּה בְּנֵ֥י קְטוּרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Midian \[were\].Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah all these \[were\].the.sons of.Keturah

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.

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