Incense
קְטֹ֫רֶתStrong’s H7004qetoret (qe-to-ret)
Appears in 58 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qetoret is the Hebrew word usually translated “incense”, “incense of” and “incense my”. It appears in 58 verses of the Old Testament.
“Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,”
Meaning
- Incense, smoke, odour of (burning) sacrificesweet smoke of sacrifice · incense · perfume
How it's translated
- incense 33
- incense of 10
- the incense 5
- and for incense of 3
- and incense of 2
- and incense my 2
- and the incense 1
- for incense 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 21
- Exodus 18
- 2 Chronicles 5
- Leviticus 4
- Ezekiel 3
- 1 Chronicles 2
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 30:1And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood shalt thou make it.
- Exodus 30:7And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.
- Exodus 30:8And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.
- Exodus 30:9Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.
- Exodus 30:27And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense,
- Exodus 30:35And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:
All 58 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
קְטֹ֫רֶת qetoret · incense
1) incense, smoke, odour of (burning) sacrifice 1a) sweet smoke of sacrifice 1b) incense 1c) perfume
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.