Lexicon libanos: the frankincense tree, frankincense Original Word: λίβανος, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: libanos Phonetic Spelling: (lib'-an-os) Short Definition: incense Definition: (Semitic word), frankincense, incense. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof Semitic origin, cf. lebonahDefinitionthe frankincense tree, frankincense NASB Translationfrankincense (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3030: λίβανοςλίβανος, λιβάνου, ὁ (more rarely ἡ (cf. Lob., as below)); 1. the frankincense-tree (Pindar, Herodotus, Sophocles, Euripides, Theophrastus, others). 2. frankincense (Hebrew לְבֹנָה; Leviticus 2:1f, 16; Isaiah 60:6, etc.): Matthew 2:11; Revelation 18:13; (Sophocles, Theophrastus, others). Cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 187; (Vanicek, Fremdwörter, under the word. On frankincense see especially Birdwood in the Bible Educator, i., 328ff, 374ff.)
Strong's frankincense. Of foreign origin (lbownah); the incense-tree, i.e. (by implication) incense itself -- frankincense. see HEBREW lbownah |
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