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Hebrew verb · H6999

קָטַר

qatarkaw-tar'

to offer: burn; incense; incense-altar; to offer: offer; to offer: to perfume

116 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: qâṭar

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6999is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 15 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 81
    spellings
  • 5
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6999

to smoke, i.e. turn into fragrance by fire (especially as an act of worship)

The King James renders it: burn (incense, sacrifice) (upon), (altar for) incense, kindle, offer (incense, a sacrifice).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

qatar is rendered "to offer: burn; incense; incense-altar; to offer: offer; to offer: to perfume". It stands 116 times in the Hebrew text, across fifteen books.

  • Thirty-three of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists five meanings for it, beginning with "to offer: burn".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 29:13Take all the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar.
  • The Greek text spells it eighty-one different ways.

The first use

Take all the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar.

Exodus 29:13וְהִקְטַרְתָּ֖

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Thirty-three of the word's 116 uses are in Leviticus.

The other 24 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The word carries five meanings: to offer: burn, and incense, and incense-altar, and to offer: offer, and to offer: to perfume.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
to offer: burnStrong's entry ATagged aslisted under the tableWhereExodus 29:13Take all the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver…
incenseStrong's entry BTagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below
incense-altarStrong's entry CTagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below
to offer: offerStrong's entry ATagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below
to offer: to perfumeStrong's entry ATagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • to make smoke19
  • and he will make smoke18
  • and he made smoke14
  • and making smoke7
  • making smoke5
  • and they have made smoke4
  • they made smoke4
  • and you will make smoke3
  • he made smoke3
  • and he will make smoke them2
  • and make smoke2
  • and makes smoke2

and 26 more, 116 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

קָטַףqataphto pluckUses5
קָטַלqatalto slayUses3
קָטַטqatatto cut offUses1
קָטַרqatarto encloseUses1

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

The words it stands beside

All 116, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

81 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • וְהִקְטִ֨יר6
  • וּֽמְקַטְּרִ֖ים6
  • וַיַּקְטֵ֥ר5
  • וְהִקְטִ֣יר4
  • וְהִקְטִ֖יר4
  • לְהַקְטִ֥יר4
  • וַֽיְקַטְּרוּ֙3
  • הִקְטִ֖יר2
  • וְהִקְטִ֥יר2
  • וַיְקַטֵּ֛ר2
  • וַיַּקְטֵ֤ר2
  • וַיַּקְטֵ֖ר2

and 69 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vhq3ms18Hc/Vhq3ms
  • preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)12HR/Vhcc
  • Hc/Vhw3ms10Hc/Vhw3ms
  • preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)8HR/Vpcc
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural6HC/Vprmpa
  • Hc/Vpw3mp5Hc/Vpw3mp
  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural4HVpp3cp
  • Hc/Vhq2ms3Hc/Vhq2ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular3HC/Vhrmsa
  • Hc/Vpw3ms3Hc/Vpw3ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural3HVprmpa
  • Hc/Vhq3ms/Sp3mp2Hc/Vhq3ms/Sp3mp

Exodus

eight uses
  • Take all the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar.

    Exodus 29:13

    • וְהִקְטַרְתָּ֖vehiktartaHc/Vhq2mstagged: and you will make smoke
  • Then burn the entire ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

    Exodus 29:18

    • וְהִקְטַרְתָּ֤vehiktartaHc/Vhq2mstagged: and you will make smoke
  • Then take them from their hands and burn them on the altar atop the burnt offering as a pleasing aroma before the LORD; it is an offering made by fire to the LORD.

    Exodus 29:25

    • וְהִקְטַרְתָּ֥vehiktartaHc/Vhq2mstagged: and you will make smoke
  • And Aaron is to burn fragrant incense on it every morning when he tends the lamps.

    Exodus 30:7

    • וְהִקְטִ֥ירvehiktirHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will make smoke
    • יַקְטִירֶֽנָּה׃yaktirenahverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: he will make smoke it
  • When Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he must burn the incense perpetually before the LORD for the generations to come.

    Exodus 30:8

    • יַקְטִירֶ֑נָּהyaktirenahverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: he will make smoke it
  • Whenever they enter the Tent of Meeting or approach the altar to minister by presenting an offering made by fire to the LORD, they must wash with water so that they will not die.

    Exodus 30:20

    • לְהַקְטִ֥ירlehaktirpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make smoke
  • and he burned fragrant incense on it, just as the LORD had commanded him.

    Exodus 40:27

    • וַיַּקְטֵ֥רvaiyakterHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he made smoke

Leviticus

thirty-three uses
  • The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

    Leviticus 1:9

    • וְהִקְטִ֨ירvehiktirHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will make smoke
  • The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall bring all of it and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

    Leviticus 1:13

    • וְהִקְטִ֣ירvehiktirHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will make smoke
  • Then the priest shall bring it to the altar, twist off its head, and burn it on the altar; its blood should be drained out on the side of the altar.

    Leviticus 1:15

    • וְהִקְטִ֖ירvehiktirHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will make smoke
  • He shall tear it open by its wings, without dividing the bird completely. And the priest is to burn it on the altar atop the burning wood. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

    Leviticus 1:17

    • וְהִקְטִ֨ירvehiktirHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will make smoke
  • and bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests. The priest shall take a handful of the flour and oil, together with all the frankincense, and burn this as a memorial portion on the altar, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

    Leviticus 2:2

    • וְהִקְטִ֨ירvehiktirHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will make smoke
  • The priest is to remove the memorial portion from the grain offering and burn it on the altar as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

    Leviticus 2:9

    • וְהִקְטִ֖ירvehiktirHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will make smoke
  • No grain offering that you present to the LORD may be made with leaven, for you are not to burn any leaven or honey as an offering made by fire to the LORD.

    Leviticus 2:11

    • תַקְטִ֧ירוּtaktiruverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you must make to smoke
  • The priest shall then burn the memorial portion of the crushed grain and the oil, together with all its frankincense, as an offering made by fire to the LORD.

    Leviticus 2:16

    • וְהִקְטִ֨ירvehiktirHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will make smoke
  • Then Aaron’s sons are to burn it on the altar atop the burnt offering that is on the burning wood, as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

    Leviticus 3:5

    • וְהִקְטִ֨ירוּvehiktiruHc/Vhq3cptagged: and they will make smoke
  • Then the priest is to burn them on the altar as food, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

    Leviticus 3:11

    • וְהִקְטִיר֥וֹvehiktiroHc/Vhq3ms/Sp3mstagged: and he will make smoke it
  • Then the priest is to burn the food on the altar as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma. All the fat is the LORD’s.

    Leviticus 3:16

    • וְהִקְטִירָ֥םvehiktiramHc/Vhq3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he will make smoke them
  • just as the fat is removed from the ox of the peace offering. Then the priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering.

    Leviticus 4:10

    • וְהִקְטִירָם֙vehiktiramHc/Vhq3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he will make smoke them
  • And he is to remove all the fat from it and burn it on the altar.

    Leviticus 4:19

    • וְהִקְטִ֖ירvehiktirHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will make smoke
  • He must burn all its fat on the altar, like the fat of the peace offerings; thus the priest will make atonement for that man’s sin, and he will be forgiven.

    Leviticus 4:26

    • יַקְטִ֣ירyaktirverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will make smoke
  • Then he is to remove all the fat, just as it is removed from the peace offering, and the priest is to burn it on the altar as a pleasing aroma to the LORD. In this way the priest will make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.

    Leviticus 4:31

    • וְהִקְטִ֤ירvehiktirHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will make smoke
  • And he shall remove all the fat, just as the fat of the lamb is removed from the peace offerings, and he shall burn it on the altar along with the offerings made by fire to the LORD. In this way the priest will make atonement for him for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven.

    Leviticus 4:35

    • וְהִקְטִ֨ירvehiktirHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will make smoke
  • He is to bring it to the priest, who shall take a handful from it as a memorial portion and burn it on the altar atop the offerings made by fire to the LORD; it is a sin offering.

    Leviticus 5:12

    • וְהִקְטִ֣ירvehiktirHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will make smoke
  • The fire on the altar shall be kept burning; it must not be extinguished. Every morning the priest is to add wood to the fire, arrange the burnt offering on it, and burn the fat portions of the peace offerings on it.

    Leviticus 6:12

    • וְהִקְטִ֥ירvehiktirHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will make smoke
  • The priest is to remove a handful of fine flour and olive oil, together with all the frankincense from the grain offering, and burn the memorial portion on the altar as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

    Leviticus 6:15

    • וְהִקְטִ֣ירvehiktirHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will make smoke
  • The priest, who is one of Aaron’s sons and will be anointed to take his place, is to prepare it. As a permanent portion for the LORD, it must be burned completely.

    Leviticus 6:22

    • תָּקְטָֽר׃taketarverb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be made to smoke
  • The priest shall burn them on the altar as an offering made by fire to the LORD; it is a guilt offering.

    Leviticus 7:5

    • וְהִקְטִ֨ירvehiktirHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will make smoke
  • The priest is to burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons.

    Leviticus 7:31

    • וְהִקְטִ֧ירvehiktirHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will make smoke
  • Moses also took all the fat that was on the entrails, the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys and their fat, and burned it all on the altar.

    Leviticus 8:16

    • וַיַּקְטֵ֥רvaiyakterHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he made smoke
  • He cut the ram into pieces and burned the head, the pieces, and the fat.

    Leviticus 8:20

    • וַיַּקְטֵ֤רvaiyakterHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he made smoke
  • He washed the entrails and legs with water and burned the entire ram on the altar as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

    Leviticus 8:21

    • וַיַּקְטֵר֩vaiyakterHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he made smoke
  • Then Moses took these from their hands and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering. This was an ordination offering, a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

    Leviticus 8:28

    • וַיַּקְטֵ֥רvaiyakterHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he made smoke
  • On the altar he burned the fat, the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver from the sin offering, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

    Leviticus 9:10

    • הִקְטִ֖ירhiktirverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he made smoke
  • They brought him the burnt offering piece by piece, including the head, and he burned them on the altar.

    Leviticus 9:13

    • וַיַּקְטֵ֖רvaiyakterHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he made smoke
  • He washed the entrails and the legs and burned them atop the burnt offering on the altar.

    Leviticus 9:14

    • וַיַּקְטֵ֥רvaiyakterHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he made smoke
  • Next he presented the grain offering, took a handful of it, and burned it on the altar in addition to the morning’s burnt offering.

    Leviticus 9:17

    • וַיַּקְטֵ֖רvaiyakterHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he made smoke
  • and placed these on the breasts. Aaron burned the fat portions on the altar,

    Leviticus 9:20

    • וַיַּקְטֵ֥רvaiyakterHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he made smoke
  • He is also to burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar.

    Leviticus 16:25

    • יַקְטִ֥ירyaktirverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will make smoke
  • The priest will then sprinkle the blood on the altar of the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and burn the fat as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

    Leviticus 17:6

    • וְהִקְטִ֣ירvehiktirHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will make smoke

Numbers

three uses
  • Then the priest is to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial portion and burn it on the altar; after that he is to have the woman drink the water.

    Numbers 5:26

    • וְהִקְטִ֖ירvehiktirHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will make smoke
  • just as the LORD commanded him through Moses. This was to be a reminder to the Israelites that no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should approach to offer incense before the LORD, lest he become like Korah and his followers.

    Numbers 16:40

    • לְהַקְטִ֥ירlehaktirpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make smoke
  • But you must not redeem the firstborn of an ox, a sheep, or a goat; they are holy. You are to sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn their fat as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

    Numbers 18:17

    • תַּקְטִ֔ירtaktirverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will make smoke

1 Samuel

four uses
  • Even before the fat was burned, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast, because he will not accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”

    1 Samuel 2:15

    • יַקְטִר֣וּןyaktirunverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they made smoke
  • And if any man said to him, “The fat must be burned first; then you may take whatever you want,” the servant would reply, “No, you must give it to me right now. If you refuse, I will take it by force!”

    1 Samuel 2:16

    • קַטֵּ֨רkaterverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: surely make smoke
    • יַקְטִיר֤וּןyaktirunverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: let them make smoke
  • And out of all the tribes of Israel I selected your father to be My priest, to offer sacrifices on My altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in My presence. I also gave to the house of your father all the offerings of the Israelites made by fire.

    1 Samuel 2:28

    • לְהַקְטִ֥ירlehaktirpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make smoke

1 Kings

seven uses
  • And Solomon loved the LORD and walked in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

    1 Kings 3:3

    • וּמַקְטִֽיר׃umaktirconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: and making smoke
  • Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD, burning incense with them before the LORD. So he completed the temple.

    1 Kings 9:25

    • וְהַקְטֵ֣ירvehakteirconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: and he made smoke
  • He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

    1 Kings 11:8

    • מַקְטִיר֥וֹתmaktirotverb · causative (hiphil), participle · feminine pluraltagged: made smoke
  • On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had set up in Bethel. So he ordained a feast for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.

    1 Kings 12:33

    • לְהַקְטִֽיר׃ פlehaktirpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make smoke
  • Suddenly, as Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD.

    1 Kings 13:1

    • לְהַקְטִֽיר׃lehaktirpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make smoke
  • And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.’”

    1 Kings 13:2

    • הַמַּקְטִרִ֣יםhamaktirimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who make smoke
  • And Jehoshaphat walked in all the ways of his father Asa; he did not turn away from them, but did what was right in the eyes of the LORD. The high places, however, were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

    1 Kings 22:43

    • וּֽמְקַטְּרִ֖יםumekaterimconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and making smoke

2 Kings

thirteen uses
  • Nevertheless, the high places were not removed; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.

    2 Kings 12:3

    • וּֽמְקַטְּרִ֖יםumekaterimconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and making smoke
  • Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

    2 Kings 14:4

    • וּֽמְקַטְּרִ֖יםumekaterimconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and making smoke
  • Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.

    2 Kings 15:4

    • וּֽמְקַטְּרִ֖יםumekaterimconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and making smoke
  • Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there. Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD.

    2 Kings 15:35

    • וּֽמְקַטְּרִ֖יםumekaterimconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and making smoke
  • And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

    2 Kings 16:4

    • וַיְקַטֵּ֛רvaykaterHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he made smoke
  • He offered his burnt offering and his grain offering, poured out his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.

    2 Kings 16:13

    • וַיַּקְטֵ֤רvaiyakterHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he made smoke
  • Then King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, “Offer on the great altar the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering, and the king’s burnt offering and grain offering, as well as the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings of all the people of the land. Sprinkle on the altar all the blood of the burnt offerings and sacrifices. But I will use the bronze altar to seek guidance.”

    2 Kings 16:15

    • הַקְטֵ֣רhakterverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: make smoke
  • They burned incense on all the high places like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them. They did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger.

    2 Kings 17:11

    • וַיְקַטְּרוּ־vaykateru-Hc/Vpw3mptagged: and they made smoke
  • He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to it.

    2 Kings 18:4

    • מְקַטְּרִ֣יםmekaterimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: making smoke
  • because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. My wrath will be kindled against this place and will not be quenched.’

    2 Kings 22:17

    • וַֽיְקַטְּרוּ֙vaykateruHc/Vpw3mptagged: and they have made smoke
  • Josiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem—those who had burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.

    2 Kings 23:5

    • וַיְקַטֵּ֤רvaykaterHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he made smoke
    • הַֽמְקַטְּרִ֣יםhamkaterimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the made smoke
  • Then Josiah brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He tore down the high places of the gates at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which was to the left of the city gate.

    2 Kings 23:8

    • קִטְּרוּ־kiteru-verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had made smoke

1 Chronicles

two uses
  • But Aaron and his sons did all the work of the Most Holy Place. They presented the offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

    1 Chronicles 6:49

    • מַקְטִירִ֨יםmaktirimverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: making smoke
  • The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron and his descendants were set apart forever to consecrate the most holy things, to burn incense before the LORD, to minister before Him, and to pronounce blessings in His name forever.

    1 Chronicles 23:13

    • לְהַקְטִיר֩lehaktirpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make smoke

2 Chronicles

sixteen uses
  • Behold, I am about to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God to dedicate to Him for burning fragrant incense before Him, for displaying the showbread continuously, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening as well as on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts of the LORD our God. This is ordained for Israel forever.

    2 Chronicles 2:4

    • לְהַקְטִ֣ירlehaktirpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make smoke
  • But who is able to build a house for Him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain Him? Who then am I, that I should build a house for Him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before Him?

    2 Chronicles 2:6

    • לְהַקְטִ֥ירlehaktirpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make smoke
  • Every morning and every evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. They set out the rows of showbread on the ceremonially clean table, and every evening they light the lamps of the gold lampstand. We are carrying out the requirements of the LORD our God, while you have forsaken Him.

    2 Chronicles 13:11

    • וּמַקְטִרִ֣יםumaktirimconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and making smoke
  • When Amaziah returned from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the Seirites, set them up as his own gods, bowed before them, and burned sacrifices to them.

    2 Chronicles 25:14

    • יְקַטֵּֽר׃yekaterverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he made smoke
  • But when Uzziah grew powerful, his arrogance led to his own destruction. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.

    2 Chronicles 26:16

    • לְהַקְטִ֖ירlehaktirpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make smoke
  • They took their stand against King Uzziah and said, “Uzziah, you have no right to offer incense to the LORD. Only the priests, the descendants of Aaron, are consecrated to burn incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have acted unfaithfully; you will not receive honor from the LORD God.”

    2 Chronicles 26:18

    • לְהַקְטִיר֙lehaktirpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make smoke
    • לְהַקְטִ֑ירlehaktirpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make smoke
  • Uzziah, with a censer in his hand to offer incense, was enraged. But while he raged against the priests in their presence in the house of the LORD before the altar of incense, leprosy broke out on his forehead.

    2 Chronicles 26:19

    • לְהַקְטִ֑ירlehaktirpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make smoke
  • Moreover, Ahaz burned incense in the Valley of Hinnom and sacrificed his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

    2 Chronicles 28:3

    • הִקְטִ֖ירhiktirverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he made smoke
  • And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

    2 Chronicles 28:4

    • וַיְקַטֵּ֛רvaykaterHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he made smoke
  • In every city of Judah he built high places to offer incense to other gods, and so he provoked the LORD, the God of his fathers.

    2 Chronicles 28:25

    • לְקַטֵּ֖רlekaterpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make smoke
  • They also shut the doors of the portico and extinguished the lamps. They did not burn incense or present burnt offerings in the Holy Place of the God of Israel.

    2 Chronicles 29:7

    • הִקְטִ֑ירוּhiktiruverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they made smoke
  • Now, my sons, do not be negligent, for the LORD has chosen you to stand before Him, to serve Him, to minister before Him, and to burn incense.”

    2 Chronicles 29:11

    • וּמַקְטִרִֽים׃ סumaktirimconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and makers of smoke
  • They proceeded to remove the altars in Jerusalem and to take away the incense altars and throw them into the Kidron Valley.

    2 Chronicles 30:14

    • הַֽמְקַטְּרוֹת֙hamkaterotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the incense altars
  • Did not Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn sacrifices’?

    2 Chronicles 32:12

    • תַּקְטִֽירוּ׃taktiruverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will make smoke
  • because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. My wrath will be poured out upon this place and will not be quenched.’

    2 Chronicles 34:25

    • וַֽיְקַטְּרוּ֙vaiyaktiruHc/Vpw3mptagged: and they have made smoke

Song of Solomon

one use
  • Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant?

    Song of Solomon 3:6

    • מְקֻטֶּ֤רֶתmekuteretverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: perfumed of

Isaiah

two uses
  • to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,

    Isaiah 65:3

    • וּֽמְקַטְּרִ֖יםumekaterimconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and make smoke
  • both for your iniquities and for those of your fathers,” says the LORD. “Because they burned incense on the mountains and scorned Me on the hills, I will measure into their laps full payment for their former deeds.”

    Isaiah 65:7

    • קִטְּרוּ֙kiteruverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they made smoke

Jeremiah

twenty-one uses
  • I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me to burn incense to other gods and to worship the works of their own hands.

    Jeremiah 1:16

    • וַֽיְקַטְּרוּ֙vaykateruHc/Vpw3mptagged: and they have made smoke
  • Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,

    Jeremiah 7:9

    • וְקַטֵּ֣רvekaterconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and will you make smoke
  • Then the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to which they have been burning incense, but these gods certainly will not save them in their time of disaster.

    Jeremiah 11:12

    • מְקַטְּרִ֖יםmekaterimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: making smoke
  • Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah; the altars of shame you have set up—the altars to burn incense to Baal—are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’

    Jeremiah 11:13

    • לְקַטֵּ֥רlekaterpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make smoke
  • The LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has decreed disaster against you on account of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have brought upon themselves, provoking Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.”

    Jeremiah 11:17

    • לְקַטֵּ֥רlekaterpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: by making smoke
  • Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.

    Jeremiah 18:15

    • יְקַטֵּ֑רוּyekateruverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they make smoke
  • because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.

    Jeremiah 19:4

    • וַיְקַטְּרוּ־vaykateru-Hc/Vpw3mptagged: and they have made smoke
  • The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”

    Jeremiah 19:13

    • קִטְּר֜וּkiteruverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: people made smoke
  • And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come in, set it on fire, and burn it, along with the houses of those who provoked Me to anger by burning incense to Baal on their rooftops and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods.

    Jeremiah 32:29

    • קִטְּר֨וּkiteruverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: people made smoke
  • nor will the priests who are Levites ever fail to have a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to present sacrifices.”

    Jeremiah 33:18

    • וּמַקְטִ֥ירumaktirconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: and makes smoke
  • because of the evil they have done. They provoked Me to anger by continuing to burn incense and to serve other gods that neither they nor you nor your fathers ever knew.

    Jeremiah 44:3

    • לְקַטֵּ֔רlekaterpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make smoke
  • But they did not listen or incline their ears; they did not turn from their wickedness or stop burning incense to other gods.

    Jeremiah 44:5

    • קַטֵּ֖רkaterverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make smoke
  • Why are you provoking Me to anger by the work of your hands by burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to reside? As a result, you will be cut off and will become an object of cursing and reproach among all the nations of the earth.

    Jeremiah 44:8

    • לְקַטֵּ֞רlekaterpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: by making smoke
  • Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, and all the women standing by—a great assembly—along with all the people living in the land of Egypt and in Pathros, said to Jeremiah,

    Jeremiah 44:15

    • מְקַטְּר֤וֹתmekaterotverb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine pluraltagged: making smoke
  • Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.

    Jeremiah 44:17

    • לְקַטֵּ֞רlekaterpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make smoke
  • But from the time we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been perishing by sword and famine.”

    Jeremiah 44:18

    • לְקַטֵּ֨רlekaterpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make smoke
  • “Moreover,” said the women, “when we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands’ knowledge that we made sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”

    Jeremiah 44:19

    • מְקַטְּרִים֙mekaterimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: making smoke
  • “As for the incense you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem—you, your fathers, your kings, your officials, and the people of the land—did the LORD not remember and bring this to mind?

    Jeremiah 44:21

    • קִטַּרְתֶּ֜םkitartemverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you made smoke
  • Because you burned incense and sinned against the LORD, and did not obey the voice of the LORD or walk in His instruction, His statutes, and His testimonies, this disaster has befallen you, as you see today.”

    Jeremiah 44:23

    • קִטַּרְתֶּ֜םkitartemverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you made smoke
  • This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: As for you and your wives, you have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled with your hands your words: ‘We will surely perform our vows that we have made to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.’ Go ahead, then, do what you have promised! Keep your vows!

    Jeremiah 44:25

    • לְקַטֵּר֙lekaterpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make smoke
  • In Moab, declares the LORD, I will bring an end to those who make offerings on the high places and burn incense to their gods.

    Jeremiah 48:35

    • וּמַקְטִ֖ירumaktirconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: and makes smoke

Hosea

three uses
  • I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.

    Hosea 2:13

    • תַּקְטִ֣ירtaktirverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she made smoke
  • They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.

    Hosea 4:13

    • יְקַטֵּ֔רוּyekateruverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they make smoke
  • But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.

    Hosea 11:2

    • יְקַטֵּרֽוּן׃yekaterunverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they made smoke

Amos

one use
  • Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.

    Amos 4:5

    • וְקַטֵּ֤רvekaterconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and make smoke

Habakkuk

one use
  • Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich.

    Habakkuk 1:16

    • וִֽיקַטֵּ֖רvikaterHC/Vpu3mstagged: so he may make smoke

Malachi

one use
  • For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name, because My name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD of Hosts.

    Malachi 1:11

    • מֻקְטָ֥רmuktarverb · causative passive (hophal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: incense

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