Keturah

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A woman named in the Book of Genesis as the second wife of the patriarch Abraham, by whom he had several sons
2. In the Hebrew Bible, the wife whom Abraham married after the death of Sarah and who bore him several children
3. A biblical figure recorded in Genesis as Abraham's later wife and the mother of six of his sons

Etymology: Keturah is the name of the woman Abraham married after the death of Sarah, according to the Book of Genesis (25:1-4), where she bears him several sons. The name is taken directly from Hebrew, where "Qəṭūrā" means "incense" or "fragrance," a meaning drawn from the Hebrew verb for burning incense. English adopted the name as a personal name borrowed straight from the Bible, so the word carries no separate sense of its own beyond the figure it names.