Libanotos means “censer” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3031 — yidbash (“Idbash”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3031 λιβανωτός (libanotos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. libanotos (lib-an-o-tos') adj. 1. frankincense 2. (by extension) a censer for burning it It has 4 linked Bible usages across 3 books. Visible English usage signals include censer. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
libanotos (lib-an-o-tos') adj. 1. frankincense 2. (by extension) a censer for burning it [from G3030] KJV: censer Root(s): G3030
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3031. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
censer
Usage: λιβανωτός, -οῦ, ὁ (λίβανος), [in LXX: 1Ch.9:29, 3Ma.5:2 * ;] __1. in cl. (and LXX), frankincense, the gum of the libanus. __2. = Late Gk., λιβανωτρίς, a censer: Rev.8:3, 5 (the same form appears in Inscr.; MM, xvi).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render libanotos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3031 (λιβανωτός) appears 2 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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2 indexed usages in New Testament.
And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And some of them were appointed over the furniture, and over all the holy vessels, and over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
he commanded him, with a quantity of unmixed wine and handfuls of incense infused to drug the elephants early on the following day. These five hundred elephants were, when infuriated by the copious draughts of frankincense, to be led up to the execution of death upon the Jews.
First 4 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3031.
And some of them were appointed over the furniture, and over all the holy vessels, and over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.
And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
he commanded him, with a quantity of unmixed wine and handfuls of incense infused to drug the elephants early on the following day. These five hundred elephants were, when infuriated by the copious draughts of frankincense, to be led up to the execution of death upon the Jews.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3031, grouped by book.
Libanotos (Strong's G3031) is a Greek word most simply glossed "censer". libanotos (lib-an-o-tos') adj. 1. frankincense 2. (by extension) a censer for burning it
This page currently indexes 4 linked usages for Strong's G3031 across 3 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3031 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as censer. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3031, with linked reader references where each row is available.