θυμίαμα
incense
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
1 distinct verse where G2368 appears in the Nominative case, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Revelation 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
θυμιαμα (thymíama) is a Greek noun most often rendered “incense.” It clusters heavily in Revelation, which alone accounts for 67% of its uses. With 6 verses in 2 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. It first appears in Luke 1:10. It clusters with θυμιαω and θυμιαστηριον under a shared root. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2368 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 4 verses 67%
- Luke 2 verses 33%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 6 distinct verses.
- Johannine 4 verses · 67%
- Revelation 4 verses · 67%
- Gospels 2 verses · 33%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 33%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Incense 4×, Odours 2×
- American Standard Version: Incense 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Incense 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Incense 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2368 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2368 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2368 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2368 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- an aromatic substance burnt, incense
Word origin
Derived from θυμιαω (thymiáō) (G2370) — to burn incense.
From G2370 ; an aroma that is fragrant powder burnt in religious service; by implication the burning itself : - incense odour.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G2368 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| θυμιάματα thymiámata | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Revelation 18:13 | 2 |
| θυμιάματος thymiámatos | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | Luke 1:10 | 2 |
| θυμιαμάτων thymiamátōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter | Revelation 5:8 | 2 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2368, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word θυμιαμα appears 68 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 67 verses in 15 books.
- 68
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 67
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 15 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 15 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 37:25 θυμίαμα
- Exodus 30:1 θυμίαμα
- Leviticus 4:7 θυμίαμα
- Numbers 4:16 θυμίαμα
- Deuteronomy 33:10 θυμίαμα
- 1 Samuel 2:28 θυμίαμα
- 1 Chronicles 6:34 θυμίαμα
- 2 Chronicles 2:3 θυμίαμα
- Psalms 65:15 θυμίαμα
- Proverbs 27:9 θυμίαμα
- Isaiah 1:13 θυμίαμα
- Jeremiah 17:26 θυμίαμα
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2368) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 67. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 37:25 θυμίαμα They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
- Genesis 43:11 θυμίαμα Their father, Israel, said to them, "If it be so now, do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;
- Exodus 30:1 θυμίαμα "You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood.
- Exodus 30:7 θυμίαμα Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.
- Exodus 30:8 θυμίαμα When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.
- Exodus 30:9 θυμίαμα You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal-offering; and you shall pour no drink-offering on it.
- Exodus 30:27 θυμίαμα the table and all its articles, the lampstand and its accessories, the altar of incense,
- Exodus 30:35 θυμίαμα and you shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy:
- Exodus 30:37 θυμίαμα The incense which you shall make, according to its composition you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for Yahweh.
- Exodus 31:11 θυμίαμα the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded you they shall do."
- Exodus 34:25 θυμίαμα "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the Passover be left to the morning.
- Exodus 35:12 θυμίαμα the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the screen;
- Exodus 35:19 θυμίαμα the finely worked garments, for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.'"
- Exodus 35:28 θυμίαμα and the spice, and the oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.
- Exodus 38:25 θυμίαμα The silver of those who were numbered of the congregation was one hundred talents, and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
- Exodus 39:15 θυμίαμα They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
- Exodus 40:27 θυμίαμα and he burnt incense of sweet spices on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 4:7 θυμίαμα The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Yahweh, which is in the tent of meeting; and he shall pour out all the blood of the bull out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 4:18 θυμίαμα He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before Yahweh, that is in the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 10:1 θυμίαμα Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them.
- Leviticus 16:12 θυμίαμα He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Yahweh, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil:
- Leviticus 16:13 θυμίαμα and he shall put the incense on the fire before Yahweh, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the testimony, so that he will not die.
- Numbers 4:16 θυμίαμα "The charge of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be the oil for the light, the sweet incense, the continual meal offering, and the anointing oil, the charge of all the tabernacle, and of all that is in it, the sanctuary, and its furnishings."
- Numbers 7:14 θυμίαμα one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
- Numbers 7:20 θυμίαμα one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
- Numbers 7:26 θυμίαμα one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
- Numbers 7:32 θυμίαμα one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
- Numbers 7:38 θυμίαμα one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
- Numbers 7:44 θυμίαμα one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
- Numbers 7:50 θυμίαμα one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
- Numbers 7:56 θυμίαμα one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
- Numbers 7:62 θυμίαμα one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
- Numbers 7:68 θυμίαμα one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
- Numbers 7:74 θυμίαμα one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
- Numbers 7:80 θυμίαμα one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;
- Numbers 7:86 θυμίαμα the twelve golden ladles, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the ladles weighed one hundred twenty shekels;
- Numbers 16:7 θυμίαμα and put fire in them, and put incense on them before Yahweh tomorrow: and it shall be that the man whom Yahweh does choose, he [shall be] holy: you take too much on you, you sons of Levi.
- Numbers 16:17 θυμίαμα and take every man his censer, and put incense on them, and bring you before Yahweh every man his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer.
- Numbers 16:18 θυμίαμα They took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood at the door of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.
- Numbers 16:35 θυμίαμα Fire came forth from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
- Numbers 17:5 θυμίαμα It shall happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.
- Numbers 17:11 θυμίαμα Thus did Moses: as Yahweh commanded him, so did he.
- Numbers 17:12 θυμίαμα The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.
- Deuteronomy 33:10 θυμίαμα They shall teach Jacob your ordinances, Israel your law: They shall put incense before you, Whole burnt offering on your altar.
- 1 Samuel 2:28 θυμίαμα and did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?
- 1 Samuel 2:29 θυμίαμα Why kick you at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in [my] habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?
- 1 Samuel 3:14 θυμίαμα Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be expiated with sacrifice nor offering forever.
- 1 Chronicles 6:34 θυμίαμα the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
- 1 Chronicles 28:18 θυμίαμα and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot, [even] the cherubim, that spread out [their wings], and covered the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 2:3 θυμίαμα Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As you dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build him a house in which to dwell, [even so deal with me].
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2368) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
