λίβανος
frankincense
‘frankincense’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G3030 appears in the Book of Revelation — 1 distinct verse. 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
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.
λιβανος (líbanos) is a Greek noun most often rendered “frankincense.” With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. Matthew dominates its distribution — 1 of 2 verses. It first appears in Matthew 2:11. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3030 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Matthew 1 verse 50%
- Revelation 1 verse 50%
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 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 1 verse · 50%
- Johannine 1 verse · 50%
- Revelation 1 verse · 50%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Frankincense 2×
- American Standard Version: Frankincense 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Frankincense 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Frankincense 2×
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Renders G3030 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3030 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3030 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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Renders G3030 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses 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.
- the frankincense tree
- the perfume, frankincense
Word origin
Derived from לבונה (lᵉbôwnâh) (H3828) — frankincense.
Of foreign origin [ H3828 ]; the incense tree that is (by implication) incense itself : - frankincense.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3030, 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
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
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Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word λιβανος appears 89 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 81 verses in 19 books.
- 89
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 81
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 19 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 19 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 30:34 λίβανος
- Leviticus 2:1 λίβανος
- Numbers 5:15 λίβανος
- Joshua 11:17 λίβανος
- Judges 3:3 λίβανος
- 1 Kings 2:46 λίβανος
- 2 Kings 14:9 λίβανος
- 1 Chronicles 5:23 λίβανος
- 2 Chronicles 2:7 λιβάνος
- Ezra 3:7 λιβάνος
- Psalms 28:5 λίβανος
- Song of Solomon 3:6 λίβανος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3030) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 81. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 30:34 λίβανος Yahweh said to Moses, "Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be an equal weight;
- Leviticus 2:1 λίβανος "'When anyone offers an offering of a meal offering to Yahweh, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it.
- Leviticus 2:2 λίβανος He shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests; and he shall take his handful of its fine flour, and of its oil, with all its frankincense; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 2:15 λίβανος You shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense on it: it is a meal offering.
- Leviticus 2:16 λίβανος The priest shall burn as its memorial, part of its bruised grain, and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense: it is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 5:11 λίβανος "'But if he can't afford two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he shall bring his offering for that in which he has sinned, the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, neither shall he put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.
- Leviticus 6:8 λίβανος Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Leviticus 24:7 λίβανος You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
- Numbers 5:15 λίβανος then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.
- Joshua 11:17 λίβανος from Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir, even to Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and struck them, and put them to death.
- Joshua 12:7 λίβανος These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir; and Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
- Joshua 13:5 λίβανος and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath;
- Joshua 13:6 λίβανος all the inhabitants of the hill-country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, even all the Sidonians; them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only allot you it to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.
- Judges 3:3 λίβανος [namely], the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.
- Judges 9:15 λίβανος The bramble said to the trees, If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
- 1 Kings 2:46 λίβανος So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 5:13 λίβανος King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
- 1 Kings 5:20 λίβανος
- 1 Kings 5:23 λίβανος
- 1 Kings 5:28 λίβανος
- 1 Kings 7:39 λίβανος He set the bases, five on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south.
- 1 Kings 10:17 λίβανος [he made] three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
- 1 Kings 10:21 λίβανος All king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
- 2 Kings 14:9 λίβανος Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son as wife: and there passed by a wild animal that was in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle.
- 2 Kings 19:23 λίβανος By your messengers you have defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir trees of it; and I will enter into his farthest lodging-place, the forest of his fruitful field.
- 1 Chronicles 5:23 λίβανος The children of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land: they increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon and Senir and Mount Hermon.
- 2 Chronicles 2:7 λιβάνος Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave [all manner of] engravings, [to be] with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.
- 2 Chronicles 2:15 λιβάνος Now therefore the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants:
- 2 Chronicles 8:6 λιβάνος and Baalath, and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
- 2 Chronicles 9:16 λιβάνος [he made] three hundred shields of beaten gold; three hundred [shekels] of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
- 2 Chronicles 9:20 λιβάνος All king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: silver was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
- 2 Chronicles 25:18 λιβάνος Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son as wife: and there passed by a wild animal that was in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle.
- Ezra 3:7 λιβάνος They gave money also to the masons, and to the carpenters; and food, and drink, and oil, to them of Sidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
- Ezra 23:5 λίβανος
- Ezra 23:9 λίβανος
- Psalms 28:5 λίβανος Because they don't regard the works of Yahweh, Nor the operation of his hands, He will break them down and not build them up.
- Psalms 28:6 λίβανος Blessed be Yahweh, Because he has heard the voice of my petitions.
- Psalms 36:35 λίβανος
- Psalms 71:16 λίβανος I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.
- Psalms 91:13 λίβανος You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.
- Psalms 103:16 λίβανος For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.
- Song of Solomon 3:6 λίβανος Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all spices of the merchant?
- Song of Solomon 3:9 λίβανος King Solomon made himself a carriage Of the wood of Lebanon.
- Song of Solomon 4:6 λίβανος Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, To the hill of frankincense.
- Song of Solomon 4:8 λίβανος Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, With me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, From the top of Senir and Hermon, From the lions' dens, From the mountains of the leopards.
- Song of Solomon 4:11 λίβανος Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
- Song of Solomon 4:14 λίβανος Spikenard and saffron, Calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; Myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,
- Song of Solomon 4:15 λίβανος A fountain of gardens, A well of living waters, Flowing streams from Lebanon. Beloved
- Song of Solomon 5:15 λίβανος His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
- Song of Solomon 7:5 λίβανος Your head on you is like Carmel, The hair of your head like purple; The king is held captive in its tresses.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3030) 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.
