smoke
qi.tor denotes smoke, whether rising over devastated land, surrounding a wineskin, or named with fire and hail.
The attested use denotes smoke in varied scenes: smoke rising from the land, the smoke in which a wineskin is pictured, and smoke listed among fire, hail, snow, and stormy wind.
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Smoke in scenes of ascent, enclosure, and natural phenomena · dominant
In Genesis 19:28, two construct singular forms occur in the clauses the APB renders “the smoke of the land went up” and “like the smoke of the kiln.” In Psalm 119:83, the absolute singular occurs in the image “like a wineskin in smoke,” while Psalm 148:8 includes it in the APB's list, “Fire and hail, snow and smoke, stormy wind.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as “smoke” in all three verses, including smoke rising from land, a wineskin in smoke, and a list of natural phenomena. The verse is read as a whole.