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title: קְטֹרֶת — smoke · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קְטֹרֶת (7004), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 60 times: smoke. BDB 1906: n.f. smoke, odour of sacrifice, incense. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קְטֹרֶת

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«קְטֹרֶת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **smoke** — 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:** 60 times · **Key:** 7004 · **BDB:** קְטֹ֫רֶת

### Glosses

incense (46); the.incense (10); \[the\].smoke (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

smoke [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7004/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. smoke, odour of sacrifice, incense [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7004/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. smoke, odour of (burning) sacrifice, incense;—ק׳ abs. Ex 30:1 +; cstr. 25:6 +; sf. קְטָרְתִּי Ez 16:18; 23:41;— sweet smoke of sacrifice, ‖ מנחה Is 1:13 ψ 141:2, קְ׳ אֵילִים 66:15, לְהַקְטִיר ק׳ 1 S 2:28 (?). incense, ק׳ (ה)סמים Ex 25:6; 30:7; 31:11; 40:27 + 9 times; ק׳ תמיד Ex 30:8, ק׳ רֹקַח v 35, הק׳ alone v 37 Lv 16:13; Nu 16:35; 17:12; so ק׳ 16:7, 17, 18; 17:5, 11; 2 Ch 29:7, ק׳ זָרָה Ex 30:9, ענן הק׳ Lv 16:13; Ez 8:11, also of אשׁ זרה Lv 10:1 (illegal worship); in offering of the princes Nu 7:14 + 11 times 7, cf. v 86. Altar of incense is מזבח מקטר ק׳ Ex 30:1, מ׳ הק׳ זהב 1 Ch 28:18, מ׳ הזהב לק׳ Ex 40:5, מ׳ ק׳ הסמים Lv 4:7, מ׳ הק׳ Ex 30:27 + 6 times perfume, ‖ שֶׁמֶן Ez 16:18; 23:41 Pr 27:9.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 33 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קְטֹרֶת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7004/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 7:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.7.14/)

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כַּ֥ף אַחַ֛ת עֲשָׂרָ֥ה זָהָ֖ב מְלֵאָ֥ה קְטֹֽרֶת׃

*Word for word:* a.pan one ten gold full incense

*JPS 1917:* one golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense;

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[Numbers 7:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.7.20/)

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כַּ֥ף אַחַ֛ת עֲשָׂרָ֥ה זָהָ֖ב מְלֵאָ֥ה קְטֹֽרֶת׃

*Word for word:* a.pan one ten gold full incense

*JPS 1917:* one golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense;

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