Definition

incense (as increasing to a volume of smoke); hence a worshipper

Etymology

from H6280 (עָתַר); also compare H6279 (עָתַר)

Word family

• עָתַר ʻâthar
• עָתַר ʻâthar

How the KJV renders it

• suppliant
• thick

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.