Incense
קְטוֹרָהStrong’s H6988qetorah (qe-to-rah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Qetorah is the Hebrew word usually translated “incense”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.”
Meaning
- Smoke of sacrifice, incense
How it's translated
- incense 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
קְטוֹרָה qetorah · incense
smoke of sacrifice, incense
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “incense” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
IN'CENSE, noun
in'cens. [Latin incensum, burnt, from incendo, to burn.]
- Perfume exhaled by fire; the odors of spices and gums, burnt in religious rites, or as an offering to some deity.“A thick cloud of incense went up” Ezekiel 8:11
- The materials burnt for making perfumes.
- Acceptable prayers and praises.
- In the Materia Medica, a dry resinous substance known by the name of thus and olibanum.
All definitions and other forms of “incense”
IN'CENSE, verb transitive
in'cens. To perfume with incense In the Romish church, it is the deacon's office to incense the officiating priest or prelate, and the choir.
INCENSE, verb transitive
incens.' To enkindle or inflame to violent anger; to excite angry passions; to provoke; to irritate; to exasperate; to heat; to fire. It expresses less than enrage.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.