how to say “incense” in Hebrew
קְטוֹרֶת
The Hebrew word for incense is קְטוֹרֶת .
.For example:
יֵשׁ כָּאן רֵיחַ שֶׁל קְטוֹרֶת.
There’s a scent of incense here.
The word’s root is ק.ט.ר (k.t.r), which gets plugged into the active-causative verb form to produce the word לְהַקְטִיר – to burn incense.
– to burn incense.This word appears in a Talmudic passage that was made into a popular song by Avraham Fried:
פַּעַם אַחַת נִכְנַסְתִּי לְהַקְטִיר קְטוֹרֶת, לִפְנַי וְלִפְנִים…
Once I (the high priest in the Temple) went in to burn incense, to the innermost chamber…