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Lexicon :: Strong's G2370 - thymiaō

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θυμιάω
Transliteration
thymiaō (Key)
Pronunciation
thoo-mee-ah'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From a derivative of θύω (G2380) (in the sense of smoking)
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Strong’s Definitions

θυμιάω thymiáō, thoo-mee-ah'-o; from a derivative of G2380 (in the sense of smoking); to fumigate, i.e. offer aromatic fumes:—burn incense.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G2370 in the following manner: burn incense (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G2370 in the following manner: burn incense (1x).
  1. to burn incense

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
θυμιάω thymiáō, thoo-mee-ah'-o; from a derivative of G2380 (in the sense of smoking); to fumigate, i.e. offer aromatic fumes:—burn incense.
STRONGS G2370:
θυμιάω, -ῶ: 1 aorist infinitive θυμιᾶσαι [R G -άσαι]; (from θῦμα, and this from θύω, which see); in Greek writings from Pindar, Herodotus, Plato down; Sept. for קִטֵּר and הִקְטִיר; to burn incense: Luke 1:9.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Luke
1:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2370 matches the Greek θυμιάω (thymiaō),
which occurs 45 times in 43 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:7 - “Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it; he shall burn it every morning when he trims the lamps.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:8 - “When Aaron [fn]trims the lamps [fn]at twilight, he shall burn incense. There shall be continual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:5 - “Moreover, you shall set the gold altar of incense before the ark of the testimony and set up the veil for the doorway to the tabernacle.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:27 - and he burned fragrant incense on it, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:15 - Also, before they offered up the fat in smoke, the priest’s young man would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest meat for roasting; he will not take boiled meat from you, only raw.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:16 - Then the man would say to him, “They must surely offer up the fat in smoke [fn]first, and then take as much as your soul desires,” then he would say, “No, you shall give it now; and if not, I will take it by force.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:2 - The people were still sacrificing on the high places because there was no house built for the name of Yahweh until those days.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:4 - “Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, setting it apart to Him as holy, to burn fragrant incense before Him and to set out the showbread continually, and to offer burnt offerings morning and evening, on sabbaths and on new moons and on the appointed feasts of Yahweh our God, this being required forever in Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:6 - “But who is able to build a house for Him, for the heavens and the highest heavens cannot contain Him? So who am I, that I should build a house for Him, except to [fn]burn incense before Him?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:11 - “And every morning and evening they [fn]burn to Yahweh burnt offerings and fragrant incense, and the showbread is set on the clean table, and the golden lampstand with its lamps is ready to light every evening; for we keep the responsibility given by Yahweh our God, but you have forsaken Him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:16 -

But when he became strong, his heart was so [fn]proud that he acted corruptly, and he was unfaithful to Yahweh his God. And he entered the temple of Yahweh to burn incense on the altar of incense.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:18 - And they stood against Uzziah the king and said to him, “It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron who are set apart as holy to burn incense. Get out of the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful and will have no honor from Yahweh God.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:19 - But Uzziah, with a censer in his hand for burning incense, was enraged; and while he was enraged with the priests, the leprosy broke out on his forehead before the priests in the house of Yahweh, beside the altar of incense.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:4 - He also sacrificed and offered offerings in smoke on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:25 - Now in each and every city of Judah he made high places to offer offerings in smoke to other gods, and provoked Yahweh, the God of his fathers, to anger.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:7 - “They have also shut the doors of the porch and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:11 - “My sons, do not be at ease now, for Yahweh has chosen you to stand before Him, to minister to Him, and to be His ministers and offer offerings up in smoke.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:14 - And they arose and took away the altars which were in Jerusalem; they also took away all the incense altars and cast them into the brook Kidron.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:12 - ‘Has not the same Hezekiah taken away His high places and His altars, and said to Judah and [fn]Jerusalem, “You shall worship before one altar, and on it you shall offer offerings up in smoke”?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:25 - “Because they have forsaken Me and have burned incense to other gods that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands, therefore My wrath will be poured out against this place, and it shall not be quenched.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:6 -

[fn]Who is this coming up from the wilderness

Like columns of smoke,

As rising incense of myrrh and frankincense,

With all scented powders of the merchant?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:3 -

A people who continually provoke Me to My face,

Offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on bricks,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:7 -

Both [fn]their own iniquities and the iniquities of their fathers together,” says Yahweh.

“Because they have burned incense on the mountains

And reproached Me on the hills,

Therefore I will measure their former work into their bosom.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:9 - “Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery and swear while lying, and burn incense to Baal and walk after other gods that you have not known,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:12 - “Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they surely will not save them in the time of their calamity.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:13 - “For your gods are the number of your cities, O Judah; and the number of the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to the shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:17 -

Yahweh of hosts, who planted you, has spoken forth evil against you because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have [fn]done to provoke Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:15 -

‘For My people have forgotten Me;

They burn incense [fn]to worthless gods,

And they [fn]have stumbled [fn]from their ways,

[fn]From the ancient paths,

To walk in bypaths,

Not on a highway,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:4 - “Because they have forsaken Me and have made this a foreign place and have burned incense in it to other gods, that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and because they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:13 - “And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like the place Topheth because of all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the heavenly host and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:3 - because of their evil which they did so as to provoke Me to anger by continuing to burn incense and to serve other gods whom they had not known, neither they, you, nor your fathers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:5 - ‘But they did not listen or incline their ears to turn from their evil, so as not to burn incense to other gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:8 - provoking Me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you are entering to sojourn, so that you might be cut off and become an imprecation and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:15 -

Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, along with all the women who were standing by, as a large assembly, [fn]including all the people who were living in Pathros in the land of Egypt, answered to Jeremiah, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:17 - “But rather we will certainly carry out every word that has proceeded from our mouths, [fn]by burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, just as we ourselves, our fathers, our kings, and our princes did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of [fn]food and were well off and saw no evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:18 - “But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have [fn]met our end by the sword and by famine.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:19 - “And,” said the women, “when we were burning incense to the queen of heaven and [fn]were pouring out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands that we made for her sacrificial cakes [fn]in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:21 - “As for the [fn]smoking sacrifices that you offered in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, did not Yahweh remember them and did not all this come upon His heart?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:23 - “Because you have burned incense and have sinned against Yahweh and not listened to the voice of Yahweh or walked in His law, His statutes, or His testimonies, therefore this evil has befallen you, as it has this day.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:25 - thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: ‘As for you and your wives, you have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled it with your hands, saying, “We will certainly perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her.” [fn]Go ahead and establish your vows, and certainly perform your vows!’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:35 - “I will make Moab cease,” declares Yahweh, “the one who offers offerings on the high place and the one who offers offerings in smoke to his gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:2 -

The more [fn]they called them,

The more they went from [fn]them;

They kept sacrificing to the Baals

And burning incense to graven images.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:16 -

Therefore they offer a sacrifice to their net

And [fn]burn incense to their fishing net

Because through these things their portion is rich

And their food is fat.

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