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INCENSE.—(1) lebônâh, which should always be tr. [Note: translate or translation.] ‘frankincense’ (wh. see). It was burnt with the meat-offering (Lev_2:1-2; Lev_2:15-16; Lev_6:15 etc.), and offered with the shewbread (Lev_24:7-9). (2) qetôreth, lit. ‘smoke,’ and so used in Isa_1:13, Psa_66:15; Psa_141:2; used for a definite substance, Lev_10:1, Eze_8:11 etc. (3) thumiama (Gr.), Luk_1:10, Rev_5:8; Rev_8:3; Rev_18:13. The holy incense (Exo_30:34) was made of stacte, onycha, galbanum, and frankincense, but the incense of later times, which was offered daily (Jdt_9:1, Luk_1:8-10), was more complicated. According to Josephus, it had thirteen constituents (BJ V. v. 5). Incense was originally burned in censers, but these were latterly used only to carry coals from the great altar to the ‘altar of incense.’
E. W. G. Masterman.