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Strong's #6999 - קָטַר
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- v
- to sacrifice, burn incense, burn sacrifices, make sacrifices smoke
- (Piel)
- to make sacrifices smoke
- to sacrifice
- (Pual) to smoke a sacrifice
- (Hiphil)
- to make sacrifices smoke
- to cause incense to smoke, offer incense
- to make smoke upon
- (Hophal) to be made to smoke
- (Piel)
- to sacrifice, burn incense, burn sacrifices, make sacrifices smoke
- n m
- incense
- n f
- incense-altar
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2705) ruq (קתהר QThR) AC: Burn CO: Incense AB: ?: The aromatic burning of incense or fat as an offering. [from: uq- made short by killing]
V) ruq (קתהר QThR) - I. Burn:To burn a sacrifice or incense. II. Join:[Unknown connection to root;] KJV (118): (vf: Paal, Hiphil, Hophal, Piel, Pual) incense, burn, offer, kindle, offering - Strongs: H6999 (קָטַר), H7000 (קָטַר)
cf1) erfuq (קתהורה QThWRH) - Incense: KJV (1): incense - Strongs: H6988 (קְטוֹרָה)
cf2) trfuq (קתהורת QThWRT) - Incense: KJV (60): incense, perfume - Strongs: H7004 (קְטֹרֶת)
ef) ruiq (קיתהר QYThR) - Incense: KJV (1): incense - Strongs: H7002 (קִטֵּר)
hm) ruqm (מקתהר MQThR) - Burning: A place for burning incense. KJV (1): burn - Strongs: H4729 (מִקְטָר)
hf2) truqm (מקתהרת MQThRT) - Censer: What is used to hold the incense. KJV (2): censor - Strongs: H4730 (מִקְטֶרֶת)
ecm) rfuiq (קיתהור QYThWR) - Smoke: The smoke of the burning incense or fat. KJV (4): smoke, vapour - Strongs: H7008 (קִיטר)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Pi`el42 Perfect 3 masculine plural קִטְּרוּ Jeremiah 19:13 +, קִטַּרְתֶּם Jeremiah 44:21,23; Imperfect 3 masculine singular יְקַטֵּר Habakkuk 1:16 +; 3 masculine plural יְקַטֵּר֑וּן Hosea 11:2, etc.; Infinitive absolute קַטֵּר 1 Samuel 2:16 +; construct Jeremiah 11:13 +, Participle plural מְקַטְּרִים Isaiah 65:3 +, etc.; — make sacrifices smoke, offer them by burning : to ׳י, 1 Samuel 2:16 (where probably read יְקַטְּרוּן [and Song of Solomon 1Samuel 2:15] Sta l.c. 299): elsewhere to other gods or in illegal worship, Jeremiah 44:23; with accusative קִטֵּר (but see this, below) Jeremiah 44:21 (here [and al. in some other passages] of incense), תּוֺדָה Amos 4:5; place is usually with ב, e.g. כַּבָּמוֺת 2 Kings 17:11; 2 Kings 23:5; עוֺד הָעָם מְוַבְּחִים וּמְקַטְּרִיםבַּבָּמוֺת 1 Kings 22:44; 2 Kings 12:4; 2 Kings 14:4; 2 Kings 15:4,35 (R), compare 2 Kings 16:4 2 Chronicles 28:4 (compare RS Sem.i. 471; 2nd ed. 490); אֲשֶׁר׳הַבּ קִטְּרוּ שָׁמָּה 2 Kings 23:8; with עַל e.g. על הגבעות Hosea 4:13, על גג(ו)ת Jeremiah 19:13; Jeremiah 32:29, על הלבנים Isaiah 65:3, על ההרים Isaiah 65:7; with לְ of deity, Hosea 11:2; Jeremiah 1:16 14t. Jeremiah (+ Jeremiah 19:13; Jeremiah 32:29 above), Habakkuk 1:16; 2 Kings 22:17; 2 Kings 23:5; 2 Chronicles 25:14; 28:25; 34:25 Qr (>Kt
Hiph`il), to the brazen serpent 2 Kings 18:4.
Pu`al Participle ׳מְקֻטֶּרֶת מֹר וגו Song of Solomon 3:6 fumigated with myrrh, etc. (Aq ᵑ9 Schlottm מִקְּטֹרֶת).
Hiph`il n Perfect 3 masculine singular הִקְטִיר Leviticus 9:10 +; 2 masculine singular הִקְטַרְתָּ Exodus 29:13,18,25, etc.; Imperfect 3 masculine singular יַקְטִיר Leviticus 4:26; Leviticus 16:25; Exodus 40:27 +, etc.: Imperative masculine singular הַקְטֵר 2 Kings 16:15; Infinitive absolute הַקְטֵיר 1 Kings 9:25; construct לְהַקְטִיר Exodus 30:20 +; Participle מַקְטִיר Jeremiah 33:18 +, etc.
1 make sacrifices smoke, usually
a. in worship of׳י: absolute 1 Kings 12:33; 1 Kings 13:1; 2 Chronicles 29:11; with accusative חלב Leviticus 17:6; Numbers 18:17; 1 Samuel 2:15,16, עלת 2 Kings 16:13,15; 2 Chronicles 13:11, אִשֶּׁה Exodus 30:20; Leviticus 2:11; Numbers 18:17, מנחה Jeremiah 33:18; ראֹשׁ, etc., Leviticus 8:20 אַזְכָּרָה Leviticus 2:16, חלבי השׁלמים Leviticus 6:5; קטרת 1 Samuel 2:28; on 1 Kings 9:25 see Klo Benz; place is על מזבח Leviticus 4:10 5t., הַמִוְבֵּ֫חָה Exodus 29:13,18,25 23t. Leviticus , Numbers 5:26 (all P); with הַמִּזְבֵּחַ (accusative) Leviticus 6:8; בַּבָּמוֺת 1 Kings 3:3; בגיא בן הִנֹּם 2 Chronicles 28:3.
b. less often in worship of other gods, לאלהין (gods of Solomon's wives) 1 Kings 11:8, לאלהיו (of Moab) Jeremiah 48:35, להם (Baalim) Hosea 2:15; — 2 Chronicles 34:25 read Qr
Qal. 2. cause incense to smoke, offer incense absolute 2 Chronicles 2:5; 2 Chronicles 26:18 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 26:19; with עַל of altar 2 Chronicles 26:16; Exodus 30:7; Exodus 40:27; with accusative יַקְטִירֶנָּה Exodus 30:7,8, קטרת סמים Exodus 30:7; Exodus 40:27; 2 Chronicles 2:3, קטרת תמיד Exodus 30:8, קטרת׳הק Numbers 17:5; 2 Chronicles 29:7.
3 make smoke upon (על) both altars (of burnt-offering and of incense) 1 Chronicles 6:34, compare also 1 Chronicles 23:13.
Hoph`al be made to smoke as a sacrifice: Imperfect 3 feminine singular תָּקְטָ֑ר Leviticus 6:15, Participle מֻקְטָר Malachi 1:11 (Ew Ke and others [ Ges§ 121 b]; We Now read לִשְׁמִי מִנְחָה׳מ; but see מֻקְטָר).
מֻקְטָר noun masculine incense; — absolute ׳מ Malachi 1:11 (Thes Hi Marti Kau GASm Kö iii, § 307).
[מְקַטֵּרָה] noun feminine incense-alter; — plural absolute מְקַטְּרוֺת 2 Chronicles 30:14.
קָטַר not used in Kal; Arab. قتر to give ascent, to be fragrant. Kindred עָטַר.
Piel קִטֵּר to offer odours, to burn incense in honour of a deity; followed לְ of the deity, the acc. of the incense being omitted, Jeremiah 1:16, 7:9 11:13 19:4 always [almost] used of idolatrous worship [see on the other hand, 1 Samuel 2:16, inf.] Part. f. מְקַטְּרוֹת altars on which incense was burned; prop. giving an odour, 2 Chronicles 30:14.
Pual, part. מְקֻטֶּרֶת incense, Song of Solomon 3:6.
Hiphil, to burn incense, used of sacrifices both lawful, 1 Chronicles 6:34, and unlawful, 1 Kings 3:3 followed by לְ of the deity, 1 Kings 11:8 often also followed by an acc. of the incense or victim burned, Exodus 29:18; Leviticus 1:9, 17 2:2, 16.
Hophal הָקְטַר pass. Leviticus 6:15. Part. Hoph. מֻקְטָר incense, Malachi 1:11.
Derivatives, קְטוֹרָה, קְטֹרֶת [קִטֵּר], קִיטֹר, מִקְטָר, מִקְטֶרֶת, and pr.n. קְטוּרָה.
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קָטַר i.q. Ch. קְטַר, Hebr. קָשַׁר. Part. pass. Ezekiel 46:22, חֲצֵערוֹת קְטֻרוֹת “bound courts,” i.e. prob. vaulted, roofed.