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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - קָטַר

קָטַר

H6999

Transliteration: qâṭar

Pronunciation: kaw-tar'

Definition: burn


Original: קטר

Transliteration: qâṭar

Phonetic: kaw-tar'

BDB Definition:

  1. to sacrifice, burn incense, burn sacrifices, make sacrifices smoke (verb)
    1. (Piel)
      1. to make sacrifices smoke
      2. to sacrifice
    2. (Pual) to smoke a sacrifice
    3. (Hiphil)
      1. to make sacrifices smoke
      2. to cause incense to smoke, offer incense
      3. to make smoke upon
    4. (Hophal) to be made to smoke
  2. incense (noun masculine)
  3. incense-altar (noun feminine)

Origin: a primitive root [identical with H7000" class="dictionary-topic-link">H7000 through the idea of fumigation in a close place and perhaps thus driving out the occupants]

TWOT entry: 2011,2011e,2011g

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