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Strong's H7004 קְטֹרֶת (qetoreth)

Qetoreth means “perfume” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H7004
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 58
Books 10

Strong's H7004 Quick Answer

Strong's H7004 קְטוֹרֶת (qtoreth) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. qtoreth (ket-o'-reth) n-f. 1. a fumigation [from H6999] It has 58 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include incense, sweet, and perfume. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
qtoreth (ket-o'-reth) n-f. 1. a fumigation [from H6999]
Usage
58 linked usages
Books
10 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
incense, sweet, and perfume

Meaning and Definition

qtoreth (ket-o'-reth) n-f. 1. a fumigation [from H6999] KJV: (sweet) incense, perfume. Root(s): H6999

Original Word
קְטוֹרֶת
Transliteration
qtoreth
Derivation
First root strongs: 6999
Morphology
noun fem

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H7004. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H7004 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render qtoreth, 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.

incense Exodus 30:1 41× sweet Exodus 25:6 14× perfume Exodus 30:35

How Strong's H7004 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old 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 Old Testament with 58 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H7004 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 H7004 in the Old Testament

58 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Exodus 25:6 KJV

Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,

Exodus 30:1 KJV

And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood shalt thou make it.

Exodus 30:7 KJV

And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.

Usage Excerpts

First 58 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7004.

Exodus 25:6 Old Testament, KJV
Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
Exodus 30:1 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood shalt thou make it.
Exodus 30:7 Old Testament, KJV
And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.
Exodus 30:8 Old Testament, KJV
And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.
Exodus 30:9 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.
Exodus 30:27 Old Testament, KJV
And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense,
Exodus 30:35 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:
Exodus 30:37 Old Testament, KJV
And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD.
Exodus 31:8 Old Testament, KJV
And the table and his furniture, and the pure candlestick with all his furniture, and the altar of incense,
Exodus 31:11 Old Testament, KJV
And the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do.
Exodus 35:8 Old Testament, KJV
And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,
Exodus 35:15 Old Testament, KJV
And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle,
Exodus 35:28 Old Testament, KJV
And spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.
Exodus 37:25 Old Testament, KJV
And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.
Exodus 37:29 Old Testament, KJV
And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.
Exodus 39:38 Old Testament, KJV
And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door,
Exodus 40:5 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle.
Exodus 40:27 Old Testament, KJV
And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Leviticus 4:7 Old Testament, KJV
And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Leviticus 10:1 Old Testament, KJV
And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.
Leviticus 16:12 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:
Leviticus 16:13 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not:
Numbers 4:16 Old Testament, KJV
And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest pertaineth the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, and the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein is, in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.
Numbers 7:14 Old Testament, KJV
One spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense:
Numbers 7:20 Old Testament, KJV
One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense:
Numbers 7:26 Old Testament, KJV
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
Numbers 7:32 Old Testament, KJV
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
Numbers 7:38 Old Testament, KJV
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
Numbers 7:44 Old Testament, KJV
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
Numbers 7:50 Old Testament, KJV
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
Numbers 7:56 Old Testament, KJV
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
Numbers 7:62 Old Testament, KJV
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
Numbers 7:68 Old Testament, KJV
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
Numbers 7:74 Old Testament, KJV
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
Numbers 7:80 Old Testament, KJV
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
Numbers 7:86 Old Testament, KJV
The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels.
Numbers 16:7 Old Testament, KJV
And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD to morrow: and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose, he shall be holy: ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.
Numbers 16:17 Old Testament, KJV
And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer.
Numbers 16:18 Old Testament, KJV
And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.
Numbers 16:35 Old Testament, KJV
And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
Numbers 16:40 Old Testament, KJV
To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.
Numbers 16:46 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
Numbers 16:47 Old Testament, KJV
And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.
1 Samuel 2:28 Old Testament, KJV
And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?
1 Chronicles 6:49 Old Testament, KJV
But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the work of the place most holy, and to make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
1 Chronicles 28:18 Old Testament, KJV
And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 2:4 Old Testament, KJV
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.
2 Chronicles 13:11 Old Testament, KJV
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.
2 Chronicles 26:16 Old Testament, KJV
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.
2 Chronicles 26:19 Old Testament, KJV
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.
2 Chronicles 29:7 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Psalms 66:15 Old Testament, KJV
I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
Psalms 141:2 Old Testament, KJV
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Proverbs 27:9 Old Testament, KJV
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
Isaiah 1:13 Old Testament, KJV
Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Ezekiel 8:11 Old Testament, KJV
And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.
Ezekiel 16:18 Old Testament, KJV
And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.
Ezekiel 23:41 Old Testament, KJV
And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7004, grouped by book.

Exodus 18 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 4 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 21 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 5 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Ezekiel 3 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H7004 FAQ

What does qetoreth (קְטֹרֶת) mean?

Qetoreth (Strong's H7004) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "perfume". qtoreth (ket-o'-reth) n-f. 1. a fumigation [from H6999]

How many times is qetoreth (קְטֹרֶת) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 58 linked usages for Strong's H7004 across 10 books.

Where can I study qetoreth (קְטֹרֶת) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7004 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate qetoreth (קְטֹרֶת)?

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