Strong's Greek: 3030. λίβανος (libanos) -- the frankincense tree, frankincense

Strong's Concordance

libanos: the frankincense tree, frankincense

Original Word: λίβανος, ου, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: libanos
Phonetic Spelling: (lib'-an-os)
Short Definition: incense
Definition: (Semitic word), frankincense, incense.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 3030: λίβανος

λίβανος, 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 Exhaustive Concordance

frankincense.

Of foreign origin (lbownah); the incense-tree, i.e. (by implication) incense itself -- frankincense.

see HEBREW lbownah

Forms and Transliterations

λιβανον λίβανον λίβανος λιβάνου λιβάνω libanon líbanon

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