Frankincense
לְבֹנָהStrong’s H3828levonah (le-vo-nah)
Appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Levonah is the Hebrew word usually translated “frankincense” and “frankincense its”. It appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:”
Meaning
- Frankincensea white resin burned as fragrant incense
How it's translated
- frankincense 9
- and frankincense 5
- frankincense its 2
- the frankincense 2
- and the frankincense 2
- with frankincense 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 7
- Song of Solomon 3
- Isaiah 3
- Jeremiah 3
- Nehemiah 2
- Exodus 1
8 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 2:1And when any will offer a meat offering unto the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon:
- Leviticus 2:2And he shall bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD:
- Leviticus 2:15And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is a meat offering.
- Leviticus 2:16And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
- Leviticus 5:11But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon: for it is a sin offering.
- Leviticus 6:15And he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of the meat offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which is upon the meat offering, and shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour, even the memorial of it, unto the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
לְבֹנָה levonah · frankincense
1) frankincense 1a) a white resin burned as fragrant incense 1a1) ceremonially 1a2) personally 1a3) used in compounding the holy incense
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “frankincense” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FRANKIN'CENSE, noun
[frank and incense.]
A dry resinous substance in pieces or drops, of a pale yellowish white color, of a bitterish acrid taste, and very inflammable; used as a perfume.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.