קָטַר
qâṭar · kaw-tar'
to smoke, i.e. turn into fragrance by fire (especially as an act of worship)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root (identical with through the idea of fumigation in a close place and perhaps thus driving out the occupants);
to smoke, i.e. turn into fragrance by fire (especially as an act of worship)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: burn (incense, sacrifice) (upon), (altar for) incense, kindle, offer (incense, a sacrifice).
Letters
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- טTet9
Picture: a basket, or something coiled
- Concrete
- basket · coil · snake · container
- Extended
- to surround · to contain · to store · to twist
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
what comes behind, the returning cycle › to surround and contain › the head, the highest
What comes behind, the returning cycle that works to surround and contain of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of קָטַר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
116 occurrences · 116 OT · 0 NT · 81 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- shall burn13 · 18%
- to burn incense13 · 18%
- and burnt incense7 · 9%
- and he burnt4 · 5%
- and burn incense4 · 5%
- me, and have burned incense4 · 5%
- burnt3 · 4%
- and burn3 · 4%
- to burn2 · 3%
- he shall burn incense2 · 3%
- and burnt2 · 3%
- and burned incense2 · 3%
- thereof, and burn2 · 3%
- had burned incense2 · 3%
- burned1 · 1%
- and shall burn1 · 1%
- and he shall burn1 · 1%
- from him, and burn1 · 1%
- for ye shall burn1 · 1%
- thereof, and shall burn1 · 1%
- it all, and burn1 · 1%
- upon it; and he shall burn1 · 1%
- to burn offering1 · 1%
- and thou shalt burn1 · 1%
- that is upon them, and burn1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.