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
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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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H6999
But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
H6999
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
H6999
Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
H6999
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.
H6999
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
H6999
And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
H6999
He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
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 kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
H6999
And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
H6999
And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
H6999
And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
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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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