Definition

to smoke, i.e. turn into fragrance by fire (especially as an act of worship)

Etymology

a primitive root (identical with through the idea of fumigation in a close place and perhaps thus driving out the occupants);

How the KJV renders it

• burn (incense
• sacrifice) (upon)
• (altar for) incense
• kindle
• offer (incense
• a sacrifice)

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.