H6999 קָטַר
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 116 KJV occurrences
קָטַר
qâṭar · kaw-tar'
Definition
to smoke, i.e. turn into fragrance by fire (especially as an act of worship)
KJV Renderings
burn (incense, sacrifice) (upon), (altar for) incense, kindle, offer (incense, a sacrifice).
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root (identical with through the idea of fumigation in a close place and perhaps thus driving out the occupants);
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 116)
- Exodus 29:13And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.
- Leviticus 2:11No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.
- Leviticus 7:31And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.
- Numbers 18:17But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
- 2 Kings 15:35¶ Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 13:11And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.
- Isaiah 65:3A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
- Jeremiah 44:8In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?