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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H3828

לְבוֹנָה

lebonahleb-o-naw'

frankincense

21 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: lᵉbôwnâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3828is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 8 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 18
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H3828

frankincense (from its whiteness or perhaps that of its smoke)

The King James renders it: (frank-) incense.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

lebonah is rendered "frankincense". It stands 21 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.

  • Seven of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 30:34The LORD also said to Moses, “Take fragrant spices—gum resin, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense—in equal measures,
  • The Greek text spells it eighteen different ways.

The first use

The LORD also said to Moses, “Take fragrant spices—gum resin, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense—in equal measures,

Exodus 30:34וּלְבֹנָ֣ה

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Seven of the word's twenty-one uses are in Leviticus.

The other 31 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • frankincense8
  • and frankincense5
  • the frankincense3
  • and the frankincense2
  • frankincense its2
  • with frankincense1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

לְבוּשׁlebushclothingUses33
לְבוּשׁlebushgarmentUses2

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

The words it stands beside

All 21, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

18 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • וּלְבוֹנָה֙2
  • לְבֹנָ֔ה2
  • לְבֹנָתָ֑הּ2
  • בִּלְבוֹנָֽה׃1
  • הַלְּבוֹנָ֜ה1
  • הַלְּבוֹנָֽה׃1
  • הַלְּבֹנָ֔ה1
  • וְהַלְּבוֹנָ֖ה1
  • וְהַלְּבוֹנָֽה׃ פ1
  • וּלְבוֹנָ֔ה1
  • וּלְבוֹנָ֑ה1
  • וּלְבֹנָ֣ה1

and 6 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · feminine singular8HNcfsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular5HC/Ncfsa
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular3HTd/Ncfsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular2HC/Td/Ncfsa
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular2HNcfsc/Sp3fs
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular1HR/Ncfsa

Exodus

one use
  • The LORD also said to Moses, “Take fragrant spices—gum resin, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense—in equal measures,

    Exodus 30:34

    • וּלְבֹנָ֣הulevonahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and frankincense

Leviticus

seven uses
  • “When anyone brings a grain offering to the LORD, his offering must consist of fine flour. He is to pour olive oil on it, put frankincense on it,

    Leviticus 2:1

    • לְבֹנָֽה׃levonahnoun · feminine singulartagged: frankincense
  • and bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests. The priest shall take a handful of the flour and oil, together with all the frankincense, and burn this as a memorial portion on the altar, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

    Leviticus 2:2

    • לְבֹנָתָ֑הּlevonatahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: frankincense its
  • And you are to put oil and frankincense on it; it is a grain offering.

    Leviticus 2:15

    • לְבֹנָ֑הlevonahnoun · feminine singulartagged: frankincense
  • The priest shall then burn the memorial portion of the crushed grain and the oil, together with all its frankincense, as an offering made by fire to the LORD.

    Leviticus 2:16

    • לְבֹנָתָ֑הּlevonatahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: frankincense its
  • But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, he may bring a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering. He must not put olive oil or frankincense on it, because it is a sin offering.

    Leviticus 5:11

    • לְבֹנָ֔הlevonahnoun · feminine singulartagged: frankincense
  • The priest is to remove a handful of fine flour and olive oil, together with all the frankincense from the grain offering, and burn the memorial portion on the altar as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

    Leviticus 6:15

    • הַלְּבֹנָ֔הhalevonahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the frankincense
  • And you are to place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

    Leviticus 24:7

    • לְבֹנָ֣הlevonahnoun · feminine singulartagged: frankincense

Numbers

one use
  • then he is to bring his wife to the priest. He must also bring for her an offering of a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He is not to pour oil over it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, an offering of memorial as a reminder of iniquity.

    Numbers 5:15

    • לְבֹנָ֔הlevonahnoun · feminine singulartagged: frankincense

1 Chronicles

one use
  • Others were put in charge of the furnishings and other articles of the sanctuary, as well as the fine flour, wine, oil, frankincense, and spices.

    1 Chronicles 9:29

    • וְהַלְּבוֹנָ֖הvehalevonahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the frankincense

Nehemiah

two uses
  • and had prepared for Tobiah a large room where they had previously stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the temple articles, and the tithes of grain, new wine, and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, along with the contributions for the priests.

    Nehemiah 13:5

    • הַלְּבוֹנָ֜הhalevonahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the frankincense
  • Then I ordered that the rooms be purified, and I had the articles of the house of God restored to them, along with the grain offerings and frankincense.

    Nehemiah 13:9

    • וְהַלְּבוֹנָֽה׃ פvehalevonahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the frankincense

Song of Solomon

three uses
  • Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant?

    Song of Solomon 3:6

    • וּלְבוֹנָ֔הulevonahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and frankincense
  • Before the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.

    Song of Solomon 4:6

    • הַלְּבוֹנָֽה׃halevonahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the frankincense
  • with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of frankincense tree, with myrrh and aloes, with all the finest spices.

    Song of Solomon 4:14

    • לְבוֹנָ֑הlevonahnoun · feminine singulartagged: frankincense

Isaiah

three uses
  • You have not brought Me sheep for burnt offerings, nor honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.

    Isaiah 43:23

    • בִּלְבוֹנָֽה׃bilvonahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: with frankincense
  • Caravans of camels will cover your land, young camels of Midian and Ephah, and all from Sheba will come, bearing gold and frankincense and proclaiming the praises of the LORD.

    Isaiah 60:6

    • וּלְבוֹנָה֙ulevonahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and frankincense
  • Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s blood; whoever offers frankincense is like one who blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways and delighted in their abominations.

    Isaiah 66:3

    • לְבֹנָ֖הlevonahnoun · feminine singulartagged: frankincense

Jeremiah

three uses
  • What use to Me is frankincense from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please Me.”

    Jeremiah 6:20

    • לְבוֹנָה֙levonahnoun · feminine singulartagged: frankincense
  • And people will come from the cities of Judah and the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, and from the foothills, the hill country, and the Negev, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and frankincense, and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.

    Jeremiah 17:26

    • וּלְבוֹנָ֑הulevonahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and frankincense
  • eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their garments, and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria, carrying grain offerings and frankincense for the house of the LORD.

    Jeremiah 41:5

    • וּלְבוֹנָה֙ulevonahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and frankincense

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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