Hebrew

Smoke

קִיטוֹרStrong’s H7008

qitor (qi-tor)

Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Qitor is the Hebrew word usually translated “smoke of”, “like smoke of” and “smoke”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

“And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.”

Genesis 19:28 KJV

Meaning

Thick smoke, smoke

How it's translated

smoke of 1
like smoke of 1
in smoke 1
and smoke 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Psalms 2
Genesis 1

2 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

קִיטוֹר qitor · smoke

thick smoke, smoke

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “smoke” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

SMOKE, noun

The exhalation, visble vapor or substance that escapes or is expelled in combustion from the substance burning.
Vapor; water exhalations.

All definitions and other forms of “smoke”

SMOKE, verb intransitive

To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation.
To burn; to be kindled; to rage; in Scripture. Deuteronomy 29:20“The anger of the Lord and his jealousy snall smoke against that man” Deuteronomy 29:20
To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
To smell or hunt out; to suspect.
To use tobacco in a pipe or cigar, by kindling the tobacco, drawing the smoke into the mouth and puffing it out.
TO suffer; to be punished.

SMOKE, verb transitive

To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to scent, medicate or dry by smoke; as, to smoke infected clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation.
To smell out; to find out.
TO sneer at; to ridicule to the face.

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.