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Strong's G2370 θυμιάω (thymiao)

Thymiao means “burn incense” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H2370 — chaza (“see”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G2370
Language Greek
Linked Usages 47
Books 12

Strong's G2370 Quick Answer

Strong's G2370 θυμιάω (thumiao) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. thumiao (thoo-mee-ah'-o) v. 1. to burn incense 2. (religiously) to offer aromatic fumes It has 47 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include burn. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
thumiao (thoo-mee-ah'-o) v. 1. to burn incense 2. (religiously) to offer aromatic fumes
Usage
47 linked usages
Books
12 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
burn

Meaning and Definition

thumiao (thoo-mee-ah'-o) v. 1. to burn incense 2. (religiously) to offer aromatic fumes [from a derivative of G2380 (in the sense of smoking)] KJV: burn incense Root(s): G2380

Original Word
θυμιάω
Transliteration
thumiao
Derivation
Root: θύω R1: 2380
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2370. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to burn incense

Usage: θυμιάω, -ῶ (θύω), [in LXX (with -άζω) chiefly for קָטַר pi., hi. ;] to burn incense: Luk.1:9.† (AS)

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How Strong's G2370 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render thumiao, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

burn Luke 1:9

How Strong's G2370 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 43 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G2370 (θυμιάω) appears 48 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G2370 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G2370 in the New Testament

1 indexed usage in New Testament.

Luke 1:9 KJV

According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.

Strong's G2370 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

43 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Exodus 30:7 Septuagint / Brenton

And Aaron shall burn upon it fine compound incense every morning; whensoever he trims the lamps he shall burn incense upon it.

Exodus 30:8 Septuagint / Brenton

And when Aaron lights the lamps in the evening, he shall burn incense upon it; a constant incense offering always before the Lord for their generations.

Exodus 40:5 Septuagint / Brenton

And thou shalt place the golden altar, to burn incense before the ark; and thou shalt put a covering of a veil on the door of the tabernacle of witness.

Strong's G2370 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Maccabees 1:55 Septuagint / Brenton

and burned incense at the doors of their houses, and in the streets.

1 Maccabees 4:50 Septuagint / Brenton

And upon the altar they burned incense, and the lamps that were upon the candlestick they lighted, that they might give light in the temple.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:42 Septuagint / Brenton

Yet they cannot understand this themselves, and leave them: for they have no knowledge.

Usage Excerpts

First 47 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2370.

Exodus 30:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Aaron shall burn upon it fine compound incense every morning; whensoever he trims the lamps he shall burn incense upon it.
Exodus 30:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when Aaron lights the lamps in the evening, he shall burn incense upon it; a constant incense offering always before the Lord for their generations.
Exodus 40:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt place the golden altar, to burn incense before the ark; and thou shalt put a covering of a veil on the door of the tabernacle of witness.
Exodus 40:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and he burned on it incense of composition, as the Lord commanded Moses.
1 Kingdoms 2:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And before the fat was burned for a sweet savor, the servant of the priest would come, and say to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest, and I will by no means take of thee sodden flesh out of the caldron.
1 Kingdoms 2:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if the man that sacrificed said, First let the fat be burned, as it is fit, and take for thyself of all things which thy soul desires: then he would say, Nay, for thou shalt give it me now; and if not, I will take it by force.
3 Kingdoms 3:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Nevertheless the people burned incense on the high places, because a house had not yet been built to the Lord.
2 Chronicles 2:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
behold, I also his son am building a house to the name of the Lord my God, to consecrate it to him, to burn incense before him, and to offer showbread continually, and to offer up whole burnt offerings continually morning and evening, and on the Sabbaths, and at the new moons, and at the feasts of the Lord our God: this is a perpetual statute for Israel.
2 Chronicles 2:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And who will be able to build him a house? for the heaven and heaven of heavens do not bear his glory: and who am I, that I should build him a house, save only to burn incense before him?
2 Chronicles 13:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
they sacrifice to the Lord whole burnt offering, morning and evening, and compound incense, and set the showbread on the pure table; and there is the golden candlestick, and the lamps for burning, to light in the evening: for we keep the charge of the Lord God of our fathers; but ye have forsaken him.
2 Chronicles 26:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction; and he transgressed against the Lord his God, and went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.
2 Chronicles 26:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said to him, It is not for thee, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, but only for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to sacrifice: go forth of the sanctuary, for thou hast departed from the Lord; and this shall not be for glory to thee from the Lord God.
2 Chronicles 26:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Uzziah was angry, and in his hand was the censer to burn incense in the temple: and when he was angry with the priests, then the leprosy rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the Lord, over the altar of incense.
2 Chronicles 28:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he burned incense upon the high places, and upon the roofs, and under every shady tree.
2 Chronicles 28:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and in each several city in Judah he made high places to burn incense to strange gods: and they provoked the Lord God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 29:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they have shut up the doors of the temple, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense, and have not offered whole burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 29:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now be not wanting to your duty, for the Lord has chosen you to stand before him to minister, and to be ministers and burners of incense to him.
2 Chronicles 30:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they arose, and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all on which they burned incense to false gods they tore down and cast into the brook Kidron.
2 Chronicles 32:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Is not this Hezekiah who has taken down his altars and his high places, and has spoken to Judah and the dwellers in Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before this altar, and burn incense upon it?
2 Chronicles 34:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
because they have forsaken me, and burned incense to strange gods, that they might provoke me by all the works of their hands; and my wrath is kindled against this place, and it shall not be quenched.
Song of Solomon 3:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who is this that comes up from the wilderness As pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all powders of the perfumer?
Isaiah 65:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the people that provokes me continually in my presence; they offer sacrifices in gardens, and burn incense on bricks to devils, which exist not.
Isaiah 65:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
their sins and the sins of their fathers, saith the Lord, who have burned incense on the mountains, and reproached me on the hills: I will recompense their works into their bosom.
Jeremiah 7:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and ye murder, and commit adultery, and steal, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and are gone after strange gods whom ye know not,
Jeremiah 11:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the cities of Judah and the dwellers in Jerusalem shall go, and cry to the gods to whom they burn incense; which shall not deliver them in the time of their troubles.
Jeremiah 11:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to burn incense to Baal.
Jeremiah 11:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord that planted thee has pronounced evils against thee, because of the iniquity of the house of Israel and the house of Judah, whatsoever they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger by burning incense to Baal.
Jeremiah 18:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For my people have forgotten me, they have offered incense in vain, and they fail in their ways, leaving the ancient tracks, to enter upon impassable paths;
Jeremiah 19:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Because they forsook me, and profaned this place, and burned incense in it to strange gods, which they and their fathers knew not; and the kings of Judah have filled this place with innocent blood,
Jeremiah 19:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be as a ruinous place, because of their uncleannesses in all the houses, wherein they burned incense upon their roofs to all the host of heaven, and poured drink offerings to strange gods.
Jeremiah 31:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will destroy Moab, saith the Lord, as he comes up to the altar, and burns incense to his gods.
Jeremiah 51:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
because of their wickedness, which they have wrought to provoke me, by going to burn incense to other gods, whom ye knew not.
Jeremiah 51:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But they hearkened not to me, and inclined not their ear to turn from their wickedness, so as not to burn incense to strange gods.
Jeremiah 51:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
by provoking me with the works of your hands, to burn incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which ye entered to dwell there, that ye might be cut off, and that ye might become a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
Jeremiah 51:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then all the men that knew that their wives burned incense, and all the women, a great multitude, and all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
Jeremiah 51:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For we will surely perform every word that shall proceed out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour drink offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, and our kings and princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and so we were filled with bread, and were well, and saw no evils.
Jeremiah 51:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, we have all been brought low, and have been consumed by sword and by famine.
Jeremiah 51:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whereas we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured drink offerings to her, did we make cakes to her, and pour drink offerings to her, without our husbands?
Jeremiah 51:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Did not the Lord remember the incense which ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, and your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land? and came it not into his heart?
Jeremiah 51:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
because of your burning incense, and because of the things wherein ye sinned against the Lord: and ye have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, and have not walked in his ordinances, and in his law, and in his testimonies; and so these evils have come upon you.
Jeremiah 51:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus has the Lord God of Israel said; Ye women have spoken with your mouth, and ye fulfilled it with your hands, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour drink offerings to her: full well did ye keep to your vows, and ye have indeed performed them.
Hosea 11:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As I called them, so they departed from my presence: they sacrificed to Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
Habakkuk 1:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore will he sacrifice to his drag, and burn incense to his casting net, because by them he has made his portion fat, and his meats choice.
Luke 1:9 New Testament, KJV
According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.
1 Maccabees 1:55 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and burned incense at the doors of their houses, and in the streets.
1 Maccabees 4:50 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And upon the altar they burned incense, and the lamps that were upon the candlestick they lighted, that they might give light in the temple.
Letter of Jeremiah 1:42 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Yet they cannot understand this themselves, and leave them: for they have no knowledge.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2370, grouped by book.

Exodus 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 13 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Song of Solomon 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 18 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
1 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Letter of Jeremiah 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G2370 FAQ

What does thymiao (θυμιάω) mean?

Thymiao (Strong's G2370) is a Greek word most simply glossed "burn incense". thumiao (thoo-mee-ah'-o) v. 1. to burn incense 2. (religiously) to offer aromatic fumes

How many times is thymiao (θυμιάω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 47 linked usages for Strong's G2370 across 12 books.

Where can I study thymiao (θυμιάω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2370 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate thymiao (θυμιάω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as burn. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G2370 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 43 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2370, with linked reader references where each row is available.