noun · masculine
libanos
Strong’sG3030
incense
stem liban-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 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.
λίβανος, -ου, ὁ
(rarely ἡ), (from the Semitic; cf. the Heb. equiv.), [in LXX for לְבֹנָה Ex 30:34, Is 60:6, Si 24:15, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3030 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidlib'-an-os
the incense-tree, i.e. (by implication) incense itself
Fromof foreign origin ();
King Jamesfrankincense.
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
frankincense-tree, Boswellia Carterii, Refs 5th c.BC+
II ={λιβανωτός}, frankincense, in which sense it is feminine in Refs 7th c.BC+
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 nominative | libanos | libanois |
| object accusative | libanon2×λίβανον | libanoin |
| direct address vocative | libanor | libanoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | libanou | libanoiu |
| to, for dative | libano | libanoi |
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
libano 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
libanon“frankincense”objectaccusative singular2×
Matthew 2:11… autoiu prosferala auto dōreim, chruson kai libanon kai smurnan.… Him with gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh.
Revelation 18:13… amōmem kai thumiameim kai murem kai libanon kai oinon kai elaiem kai semidalian …of cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, and frankincense; of wine, olive oil, fine flour …