Definition

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

Etymology

or לְבֹנָה; from H3836 (לָבָן);

Word family

• לָבָן lâbân

How the KJV renders it

• (frank-) incense

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.