Exodus 25:6
Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
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Incense
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Revelation 8:4
And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
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קָטַר
qâṭar · kaw-tar'
59 times translated as this KJV form116 total Strong's occurrences
to smoke, i.e. turn into fragrance by fire (especially as an act of worship)
Strong's KJV usage: burn (incense, sacrifice) (upon), (altar for) incense, kindle, offer (incense, a sacrifice).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 30:7Strong's last: Malachi 1:11
Open full H6999 profile →קְטֹרֶת
qᵉṭôreth · ket-o'-reth
57 times translated as this KJV form60 total Strong's occurrences
a fumigation
Strong's KJV usage: (sweet) incense, perfume.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 25:6Strong's last: Ezekiel 23:41
Open full H7004 profile →לְבוֹנָה
lᵉbôwnâh · leb-o-naw'
6 times translated as this KJV form21 total Strong's occurrences
frankincense (from its whiteness or perhaps that of its smoke)
Strong's KJV usage: (frank-) incense.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 43:23Strong's last: Jeremiah 41:5
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thymíama · thoo-mee'-am-ah
4 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
an aroma, i.e. fragrant powder burnt in religious service; by implication, the burning itself
Strong's KJV usage: :--incense, odour.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 1:10Strong's last: Revelation 8:4
Open full G2368 profile →θυμιάω
thymiáō · thoo-mee-ah'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to fumigate, i.e. offer aromatic fumes
Strong's KJV usage: :--burn incense.
Strong's first: Luke 1:9Strong's last: Luke 1:9
Open full G2370 profile →קְטוֹרָה
qᵉṭôwrâh · ket-o-raw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
perfume
Strong's KJV usage: incense.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 33:10Strong's last: Deuteronomy 33:10
Open full H6988 profile →קִטֵּר
qiṭṭêr · kit-tare'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
perfume
Strong's KJV usage: incense.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 44:21Strong's last: Jeremiah 44:21
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H7004
Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
H7004
And 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.
H6999
Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.
H6999
But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
H7004
But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
H6999
And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God.
H6999
And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God.
H6999
Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.
H7004
Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.
H6999
Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
H6999
He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
H6999
And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.
H7004
Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
H6999
My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.
H6999
And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
H6999
Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?
H6999
Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.
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incense
IN'CENSE, noun in'cens. [Latin incensum, burnt, from incendo, to burn.]
1. Perfume exhaled by fire; the odors of spices and gums, burnt in religious rites, or as an offering to some deity.
A thick cloud of incense went up. Ezekiel 8:11.
2. The materials burnt for making perfumes. The incense used in the Jewish offerings was a mixture of sweet spices, stacte, onycha, galbanum, and the gum of the frankincense tree.
Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein and put incense thereon. Lex.10.
3. Acceptable prayers and praises. Mal. Latin
4. In the Materia Medica, a dry resinous substance known by the name of thus and olibanum.
IN'CENSE, verb transitive in'cens. To perfume with incense In the Romish church, it is the deacon's office to incense the officiating priest or prelate, and the choir.
INCENSE, verb transitive incens.' To enkindle or inflame to violent anger; to excite angry passions; to provoke; to irritate; to exasperate; to heat; to fire. It expresses less than enrage.
How could my pious son thy power incense?
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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