|Easton's Bible Dictionary| (Hebrews lebonah; Gr. libanos, i.e.,
"white"), an odorous resin imported from Arabia (Isaiah 60:6;
Jeremiah 6:20), yet also growing in Palestine (Cant. 4:14). It
was one of the ingredients in the perfume of the sanctuary
(Exodus 30:34), and was used as an accompaniment of the meat-
offering (Leviticus 2:1, 16; 6:15; 24:7). When burnt it emitted
a fragrant odour, and hence the incense became a symbol of the
Divine name (Malachi 1:11; Cant. 1:3) and an emblem of prayer
(Psalm 141:2; Luke 1:10; Revelation 5:8; 8:3). This
frankincense, or olibanum, used by the Jews in the temple
services is not to be confounded with the frankincense of modern
commerce, which is an exudation of the Norway spruce fir, the
Pinus abies. It was probably a resin from the Indian tree known
to botanists by the name of Boswellia serrata or thurifera,
which grows to the height of forty feet. Noah Webster's
Dictionary (n.) A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, from
trees the genus Boswellia, burned as an incen