frankincense
le.vo.nah is an aromatic material placed with offerings, kept among temple provisions, and named in fragrant imagery and gifts.
The noun denotes an aromatic material, most often specified as part of offerings and temple provisions: it is placed on grain offerings, burned with a memorial portion, and stored among sacred articles. The same material also appears in descriptions of fragrance and in goods brought from distant places, without the supplied verses showing a separate lexical meaning.
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Aromatic material in offerings, stores, and fragrance · dominant
The singular noun identifies material placed on grain offerings in Leviticus 2:1 and Leviticus 2:15; in Leviticus 2:2 and Leviticus 2:16, its construct form occurs in clauses about taking and burning the offering's memorial portion. It is also listed among temple provisions in Nehemiah 13:5, while Song of Songs 3:6 places it among substances that perfume the approaching figure; these settings show the same aromatic material in ritual, stored, and descriptive contexts.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB usually presents the material as “frankincense,” especially in offering and fragrant-description clauses. Jeremiah 41:5 instead uses “incense”; That variation should not be treated as a distinct meaning.