H7008 H7008
thick smoke, dense smoke (rising from burning)
A noun denoting thick, dense smoke rising from fire or destruction. Genesis 19:28 twice describes the smoke rising from the destroyed cities of the plain 'like the smoke of a furnace.' Psalm 119:83 uses it metaphorically: 'though I am like a wineskin in the smoke' (blackened and shriveled by exposure). Psalm 148:8 may reference smoke, though ancient versions apparently read 'frost' (קֶרַח), creating textual uncertainty. The word evokes the dense, choking smoke of intense conflagration.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Genesis 19:28 twice mentions 'the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace' (כְּקִיטֹר הַכִּבְשָׁן) after Sodom's destruction. Psalm 119:83 uses a vivid simile: 'I have become like a wineskin in the smoke' (כְּנֹאד בְּקִיטוֹר)—shriveled and blackened. Psalm 148:8 has textual difficulty: the Hebrew reads 'smoke' but ancient versions suggest 'frost.' Spanish humo (smoke) and French fumée (smoke) consistently identify this as thick smoke from burning. 4×
AR["دُخَانُ", "فِي-الدُّخَانِ", "كَ-دُخَانِ", "وَالضَّبَابُ"]·ben["-ধোঁয়ায়", "ও-কুয়াশা", "ধোঁয়া", "যেন-ধোঁয়া"]·DE["der-Rauch", "in-der-Rauch", "und-mist", "wie-der-Rauch"]·EN["and-mist", "in-the-smoke", "like-smoke-of", "smoke-of"]·FR["comme-fumée-de", "dans-fumée", "et-fumée", "fumée-de"]·heb["ב-קיטור", "ו-קיטור", "כ-קיטר", "קיטר"]·HI["और-कोहरा", "जैसे-धुअन", "धुअन"]·ID["asap", "dalam-asap", "dan-kabut", "seperti-asap"]·IT["come-fumo-di", "e-fumo", "fumo", "fumo-di"]·jav["asep", "ing-kukus", "kados-asep", "lan-kukus"]·KO["그리고-안개와", "연기-에서", "연기가", "연기같이"]·PT["como-fumaça-de", "e-vapor", "fumaça-de", "na-fumaça"]·RU["в-дыму", "дым", "и-пар", "как-дым"]·ES["como-humo-de", "en-humo", "humo-de", "y-vapor"]·SW["kama-moshi", "katika-moshi", "moshi", "na-moshi"]·TR["dumanda", "dumanı", "dumanı-gibi", "ve-buhar"]·urd["اور-دھند", "جیسا-دھواں", "دھوئیں-میں", "دھواں"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† קִיטוֹר (LagBN 182) n.m. thick smoke;—קִיטֹר Gn 19:28(×2) (J), -טוֹר ψ 119:83; 148:8 (fig. of clouds in thunderstorm; Vrss. appar. קֶרַח, cf. Du).