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title: עָתָר — odour · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עָתָר (lemma:עָתָר), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: odour. BDB 1906: odour. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עָתָר

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«עָתָר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **odour** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:עָתָר · **BDB:** עָתָר²

### Glosses

the.fragrance (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

odour [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5ea_5b8_5e8/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

odour [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5ea_5b8_5e8/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] odour (si vera l.) (so Vrss.);—cstr. עֲתַר Ez 8:11, of incense.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עָתָר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5ea_5b8_5e8/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 8:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.8.11/)

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וְשִׁבְעִ֣ים אִ֣ישׁ מִזִּקְנֵ֣י בֵֽית־יִ֠שְׂרָאֵל וְיַאֲזַנְיָ֨הוּ בֶן־שָׁפָ֜ן עֹמֵ֤ד בְּתוֹכָם֙ עֹמְדִ֣ים לִפְנֵיהֶ֔ם וְאִ֥ישׁ מִקְטַרְתּ֖וֹ בְּיָד֑וֹ וַעֲתַ֥ר עֲנַֽן־הַקְּטֹ֖רֶת עֹלֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and seventy man of the.elders of.the.house of.Israel and Jaazaniah the.son of.Shaphan \[was\].standing among them \[were\].standing before them and everyone censer his \[was\].in hand his and the.fragrance of.the.cloud of.(the) incense \[was\].going.up

*JPS 1917:* And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.

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