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λίβανος

líbanos · G3030 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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A word for 2 things

Meanings

  1. frankincense

    The aromatic resin of certain trees, burned for its pleasing aroma

    Examples

    Matthew 2:11 And after they came into the house, they saw the Child with His mother Mary; and they fell down and worshiped Him. Then they opened their treasures and presented to Him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

    Revelation 18:13 cinnamon, spice, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, and cargo of horses, carriages, slaves, and human lives.

How it’s used In 1 role

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2 occurrences in 2 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word
לְבוֹנָה lᵉbôwnâh · H3828 · frankincense
Hebrew לְבוֹנָה, frankincense, is the direct etymological and semantic equivalent of Greek λίβανος, both denoting the aromatic resin used in temple worship and religious offerings.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Frankincense6.212
λίβανος names frankincense, an aromatic resin. Matthew 2:11 recounts that the magi, seeing the Child, “opened their treasures and presented to Him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh,” the λίβανον naming this fragrant offering brought to Jesus.
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

λίβανοςlíbanos · G3030λιβανωτός libanōtós · G3031 · censer · 2×

Also from the root λίβανος

χαλκολίβανον chalkolíbanon · G5474 · fine bronze, fine brass · 2×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon λιβάνου, ὁ (more rarely ἡ (cf. Lob., as below)); 1. the frankincense-tree (Pindar,…
λιβάνου, ὁ (more rarely ἡ (cf. Lob., as below));
1. the frankincense-tree (Pindar, Herodotus, Sophocles, Euripides, Theophrastus, others).
2. frankincense (Hebrew לְבֹנָה; Lev 2:1f, 16; Isa 60:6, etc.): Mt 2:11; Rev 18:13; (Sophocles, Theophrastus, others). Cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 187; (Vanicek, Fremdwörter, under the word. On frankincense see especially Birdwood in the Bible Educator, i., 328ff, 374ff.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Perfumes and Incense2 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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