1. λίβανος · libanos — Beekes
The corpus record
λίβᾰνος
libanos
frankincense
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Where it lives
- Canticum 10 · 51.41/10k
- Nahum 1 · 10.83/10k
- Habacuc 1 · 9.14/10k
- Osee 3 · 7.96/10k
- Isaias 13 · 4.95/10k
- Regnorum III 9 · 4.71/10k
- Paralipomenon II 9 · 4.57/10k
- Zacharias 2 · 4.15/10k
- Baruch 1 · 3.96/10k
- Leviticus 7 · 3.74/10k
- Esdras I 3 · 3.65/10k
- Siracides 6 · 3.25/10k
Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. λίβανος · libanos — Chantraine
3. λίβανος · libanos — Frisk
4. λίβανος · libanos — Frisk
5. λίβᾰνος · libanos — LSJ
frankincense-tree, Boswellia Carterii, Hdt. 4.75, Thphr. HP 9.4.2, Dsc. 1.68, etc.; ἱερόδακρυς λ. Melanipp. 1.5.
= λιβανωτός, frankincense, in which sense it is fem. in Pi. Fr. 122.3, E. Ba. 144 (lyr.); but masc. in PCair.Zen. 69.13 (iii B.C.), AP 6.231 (Phil.), 9.93 (Antip. Thess.), Edict.Diocl. (Ἀθηνᾶ 18.6, Tegea); indeterminate in Sapph. 44.30 L.-P., S. Fr. 1064, Anaxandr. 41.37, SIG 247ii 19 (Delph., iv B.C.).
In the wild
- λιβάνου · libanou Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7172)
- λιβάνου · libanou Euripides, Bacchae 144–150
- λιβάνου · libanou Herodotus, Histories 4.75.3 (DIORISIS sentence 4536)
- λίβανον · libanon New Testament, Matthew 2.11 (DIORISIS sentence 26)
- λίβανον · libanon New Testament, Revelation 18.11 (DIORISIS sentence 355)
- λίβανον · libanon Septuaginta, Baruch 1
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. λίβᾰνος (scan p. 907; entry #3758).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. λίβᾰνος (scan p. 656; entry #4827).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. λίβᾰνος (scan p. 1092; entry #3573).