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

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«קטר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **thick smoke** — 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:קטר · **BDB:** קטר

### Glosses

incense (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

thick smoke [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5d8_5e8/#m1)

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**The whole BDB entry:** (√ of foll.; cf. Assyrian ḳutru (with ת) smoke; Talm. 𝔗 קִיטְרָא, קוטְרָא (thick) smoke; Arabic قَتَرَ smoke (said of fire); usually exhale odour (especially of roast meat); Assyrian ḳutrinnu, incense-offering; Sab. מקטר censer CIS iv. nos. 26, 1. 6; 30, 1. 4; Ethiopic ቅታሬ incense; Egyptian ḳatalƟa Bondi74 ff., kataruti̥ WMMAs. u. Eur. 97 = קְטֹרֶת, קְטָרוֹת; NH \[קָטַר\] smoke (said of incense)).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קטר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5d8_5e8/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Malachi 1:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.1.11/)

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כִּ֣י מִמִּזְרַח־שֶׁ֜מֶשׁ וְעַד־מְבוֹא֗וֹ גָּד֤וֹל שְׁמִי֙ בַּגּוֹיִ֔ם וּבְכָל־מָק֗וֹם מֻקְטָ֥ר מֻגָּ֛שׁ לִשְׁמִ֖י וּמִנְחָ֣ה טְהוֹרָ֑ה כִּֽי־גָד֤וֹל שְׁמִי֙ בַּגּוֹיִ֔ם אָמַ֖ר יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* (dm) from.\[the\] rising of.\[the\].sun and to setting its \[is\].great name my among the nations and in every place incense \[is.being\].brought.near to name my and an.offering a.pure (dm) \[is\].great name my among the nations he.says Yahweh of.hosts

*JPS 1917:* For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same My name is great among the nations; and in every place offerings are presented unto My name, even pure oblations; for My name is great among the nations, saith the LORD of hosts.

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