levona · frankincense

What it means

levona (לְבוֹנָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “frankincense”.

A white resin that gives off sweet-smelling smoke when burned.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A resin that gives a sweet smell when burned.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×7
• Numbers×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×2
• Song of Songs×3
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×3

• Exodus 30:34

  YHWH said to Moses, “Take for yourself fragrant spices: resin, onycha, and galbanum, fragrant spices with pure frankincense; in equal parts it shall be.

• Leviticus 2:1

  When a person presents a grain offering to YHWH, his offering shall be of fine flour; he shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it.

• Leviticus 2:2

  He shall bring it to the sons of Aaron, the priests, and he shall take from there his full handful of its fine flour and of its oil, with all its frankincense, and the priest shall offer up in smoke its memorial portion on the altar, a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Leviticus 2:15

  You shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it; it is a grain offering.

• Leviticus 2:16

  The priest shall offer up in smoke its memorial portion, part of its crushed grain and of its oil, with all its frankincense, a fire offering to YHWH.

• Leviticus 5:11

  But if his means do not reach to two turtledoves or to two young pigeons, he shall bring, as his offering for what he has sinned, a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering; he shall not put oil on it, and he shall not put frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.

• Leviticus 6:15

  He shall take up from it in his handful some of the fine flour of the grain offering and of its oil, and all the frankincense that is on the grain offering, and offer it up in smoke on the altar as a pleasing aroma, its memorial portion to YHWH.

• Leviticus 24:7

  And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, and it shall be for the bread as a memorial portion, a fire offering to YHWH.

• Numbers 5:15

  then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, a tenth of an ephah of barley flour; he shall not pour oil on it and not put frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of memorial, bringing to remembrance iniquity.

• 1 Chronicles 9:29

  And some of them were appointed over the utensils, and over all the holy utensils, and over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.

• Nehemiah 13:5

  had made for him a large chamber, where previously they had been putting the grain offering, the frankincense, and the utensils, and the tithe of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, what was commanded for the Levites, the singers, and the gatekeepers, and the contribution of the priests.

• Nehemiah 13:9

  And I said, and they purified the chambers; and I brought back there the utensils of the house of Elohim, the grain offering and the frankincense.

• Song of Songs 3:6

  Who is this coming up from the wilderness like columns of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the powders of the merchant?

• Song of Songs 4:6

  Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.

• Song of Songs 4:14

  nard and saffron, cane and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all the finest balsams;

• Isaiah 43:23

  You have not brought me the sheep of your burnt offerings, and with your sacrifices you have not honored me; I have not made you serve with grain offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.

• Isaiah 60:6

  A throng of camels will cover you, young camels of Midian and Ephah; all of them will come from Sheba; gold and frankincense they will bring, and the praises of YHWH they will proclaim.

• Isaiah 66:3

  One who slaughters the ox, one who strikes a man; one who sacrifices the lamb, one who breaks the neck of a dog; one who presents an offering, the blood of a pig; one who makes a memorial of frankincense, one who blesses wickedness. They too have chosen their ways, and in their detestable things their soul delights.

• Jeremiah 6:20

  What use to me is frankincense that comes from Sheba, or the good cane from a land far away? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”

• Jeremiah 17:26

  And they will come from the cities of Judah and from the surroundings of Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the Shephelah, and from the hill country, and from the Negev, bringing burnt offering and sacrifice, and grain offering and frankincense, and bringing thanksgiving to the house of YHWH.

• Jeremiah 41:5

  that men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, eighty men, with their beards shaved and their garments torn and cutting themselves, with a grain offering and frankincense in their hand to bring to the house of YHWH.