לְבוֹנָה
lᵉbôwnâh · H3828 · Hebrew · 21 occurrences
A word for 2 things
Meanings
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Frankincense
The yellow or reddish gum of the Boswellia sacra tree, a shrub reaching 3 meters high, used as an ingredient of the incense burned in the tabernacle
ExamplesExodus 30:34 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take for yourself spices—stacte, onycha, and galbanum, spices and pure frankincense; there shall be an equal part of each.
Leviticus 2:1 ‘Now when anyone presents a grain offering as an offering to the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour, and he shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it.
Leviticus 2:2 ‘He shall then bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests; and he shall take from it his handful of its fine flour and of its oil, with all of its frankincense. And the priest shall offer it up in smoke as its memorial portion on the altar, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the LORD.
How it’s used In 8 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- הּher 2
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- זַךְpure 2
- מִנְחָהgrain offering, gift, tribute 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- סַםfragrant spices 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1
What is done to itIt is the object
8 occurrences in 5 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 4
- זָכַרto remember 1
- נָשָׂאto lift up, to carry, to bear 1
- שׂוּםto put, to set, to place 1
- בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָדhand, power 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 5
- בin/on/with 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- גִּבְעָהhill 1
- עֵץtree, wood 1
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- קְטֹרֶת qᵉṭôreth · H7004 · smoke (from burning animal sacrifices), perfume, incense
- Both words denote aromatic substances burned in ritual or worship, overlapping in the sense of incense. The target term is the more specific, referring to frankincense, a particular resin, while קְטֹרֶת (qᵉṭôreth, H7004) is broader, covering any sweet incense or perfume.
In the other Testament 1 word
- λίβανος líbanos · G3030 · frankincense
- Greek λίβανος (líbanos, G3030) is the direct translation equivalent of Hebrew לְבוֹנָה (lᵉbôwnâh, H3828), both denoting frankincense as the aromatic resin used in ritual contexts, with the Greek term encompassing both the incense-tree and its extracted incense.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Spices001002005014
- לְבוֹנָה denotes frankincense, an aromatic resin used in worship, illustrated at Exodus 30:34 and Leviticus 2:1-2 ("frankincense" offered with the grain offering).
- Names of Locations003001010
- This entry carries no independent place-name sense of its own; every tagged occurrence is the noun for frankincense or a spice, as in “Now when anyone presents a grain offering as an offering to the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour, and he shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it” (Leviticus 2:1). The “Names of Locations” domain is bundle-shared with the related lexeme לְבוֹנָה (Lᵉbôwnâh, H3829) rather than independently attested here.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3828. lebonah I. לְבוֺנָה לְבֹנָה, noun feminine frankincense (from white colour,…
I. לְבוֺנָה לְבֹנָה, noun feminine frankincense (from white colour, compare LagBN 33; Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic id., לְבוּנְתָּא, Phoenician לבנת; Arabic (Lane3007); Ethiopic is from λιβανος); — ׳ל Exo 30:24 Exo 30:18t.; לְבֹנָתָהּ Lev 2:2, Lev 2:16; — used in preparation of holy incense Exo 30:34 (|| סַמִּים); used as incense Jer 6:20, on meal-offering Lev 2:1-2, Lev 2:15, Lev 2:16; Lev 6:8, compare Lev 5:11; Num 5:15; also Jer 17:26; Jer 41:5; Isa 43:23; Isa 66:3; with shew-bread Lev 24:7; Neh 13:5, Neh 13:9; 1Ch 9:29 (|| בְּשָׂמִים); burned as perfume (article of luxury) Son 3:6 (|| מֹר); הַלְּבוֺנָה גִּבְעַת Son 4:6 (|| הַמּוֺר הַר); לְבוֺנָה עֲצֵי Son 4:14 (|| אֲהָלוֺת מֹר, קִנָּמוֺן, קָנֶה, כַּרְכֹּם, נֵרְדְּ,); as tribute to Zion Isa 60:6 (|| זהב). — In Hexateuch only P.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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