Bible Names

Keturah: meaning of the name

Keturah means “that makes the incense to fume.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)girl name

Keturah in Hebrew and Greek

קְטוּרָה H6989

Qᵉṭûwrâh (ket-oo-raw') — Keturah, a wife of Abraham

feminine passive participle of H6999 (קָטַר); perfumed;

Who named Keturah in the Bible

Keturah in Scripture

“Keturah” appears in 4 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 25:1

    Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.

  • Genesis 25:4

    And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.

  • 1 Chronicles 1:32

    Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan.

  • 1 Chronicles 1:33

    And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these are the sons of Keturah.