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# לְבֹנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3828

**frankincense** — used 21 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

frankincense [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3828/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לְבֹנָה: n.f. frankincense [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3828/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. frankincense (from white colour, cf. LagBN 33; NH id.; Aramaic id., לְבוּנְתָּא, ܠܒܽܘܢܬܳܐ; Ph. לבנת; Arabic لُبَانٌ (Lane 3007); Ethiopic ሊባኖስ is from λιβανος);—ל׳ Ex 30:24 + 18 times; לְבֹנָתָהּ Lv 2:2, 16;—used in prep. of holy incense Ex 30:34 (‖ סַמִּים); used as incense Je 6:20, on meal-offering Lv 2:1, 2, 15, 16; 6:8, cf. 5:11 Nu 5:15; also Je 17:26; 41:5; Is 43:23; 66:3; with shew-bread Lv 24:7; Ne 13:5, 9 1 Ch 9:29 (‖ בְּשָׂמִים); burned as perfume (art. of luxury) Ct 3:6 (‖ מֹר); גִּבְעַת חַלְּבוֹנָה 4:6 (‖ הַר הַמּוֹר); עֲצֵי לְבוֹנָה v 14 (‖ נֵרְדְּ, כַּרְכֹּם, קָנֶה, קִנָּמוֹן, מֹר, אֲהָלוֹת); as tribute to Zion Is 60:6 (‖ זהב).—In Hex only P.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 21 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: frankincense (20); of frankincense (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 2:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.2.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.2.15/#tree)

וְנָתַתָּ֤ עָלֶ֙יהָ֙ שֶׁ֔מֶן וְשַׂמְתָּ֥ עָלֶ֖יהָ לְבֹנָ֑ה מִנְחָ֖ה הִֽוא׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.put on it oil and you.will.place on it frankincense \[is\].a.grain.offering it

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon; it is a meal-offering.

[Leviticus 24:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.24.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.24.7/#tree)

וְנָתַתָּ֥ עַל־הַֽמַּעֲרֶ֖כֶת לְבֹנָ֣ה זַכָּ֑ה וְהָיְתָ֤ה לַלֶּ֙חֶם֙ לְאַזְכָּרָ֔ה אִשֶּׁ֖ה לַֽיהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.put on the row frankincense pure and it.will.belong to the bread to a.memorial.offering a.fire.offering to Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt put pure frankincense with each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial-part, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3828.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3828/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).