noun · neuter
chalkolibanem
Strong’sG5474
orichalcum, or frankincense of a yellow color
stem chalkoliban-2 times in the New Testament1 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
*† χαλκο-λίβανον, -ου, τό
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5474 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkhal-kol-ib'-an-on
burnished copper, an alloy of copper (or gold) and silver having a brilliant lustre
Fromneuter of a compound of G5475 and G3030 (in the implied mean of whiteness or brilliancy);
King Jamesfine brass.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
either fine brass, brass of Lebanon, or yellow frankincense, NT
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | chalkolibanem | chalkolibaneim |
| of, belonging to genitive | chalkolibaneu | chalkolibaneiu |
| to, for dative | chalkolibane2×χαλκολιβάνῳ | chalkolibanei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
chalkolibane is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
chalkolibane“burnished bronze”to, fordative singular2×
Revelation 1:15“burnished bronze”kai tois podois autou homoiois chalkolibane, hōs en kaminosa purorēntau, kai tas …His feet were like polished bronze refined in a furnace, and His voice was like the roar of …
Revelation 2:18“burnished bronze”… pureu, kai tois podois autou homoiois chalkolibane;… a blazing fire and whose feet are like polished bronze.