noun · masculine
libanōtos
Strong’sG3031
a censer
stem libanōt-2 times in the New Testament1 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.
λιβανωτός, -οῦ, ὁ
(< λίβανος), [in LXX: I Ch 9:29, (לְבֹנָה), III Mac 5:2*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3031 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidlib-an-o-tos'
frankincense, i.e. (by extension) a censer for burning it
Fromfrom G3030;
King Jamescenser.
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
also ἡ Refs 4th c.BC+:— frankincense, the gum of the tree λίβανος, used to burn at sacrifices, Refs 6th c.BC+: called, when in small pieces, χόνδρος λιβανωτοῦ Refs 2nd c.AD+; compare λιβανομάννα: the best kind was λ. ἄρρην Refs 1st c.AD+
2 ={λίβανος}Refs 4th c.BC+
II the frankincensemarket, Refs 5th c.BC+
III ={λιβανωτρίς}, 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 nominative | libanōtos | libanōtois |
| object accusative | libanōton2×λιβανωτὸν | libanōtoin |
| direct address vocative | libanōtor | libanōtoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | libanōtou | libanōtoiu |
| to, for dative | libanōto | libanōtoi |
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
libanōto 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
libanōton“censer”objectaccusative singular2×
Revelation 8:3… kai stēita epi teu thusiastērieu echarōntos libanōton chrusouon, kai dōita auto thumiameim polleim …… another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar …
Revelation 8:5kai labatē tos angelos ton libanōton, kai gemizata auton ek teu pureu …Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the …