The Bible Search Thread

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Nothing comes up for “MARIJUANA” but it is a slang word for the plant “CANNABIS”. I’ll do a Google search for these words later this evening. KANEHBOSM, KINEBOISIS, AND KANNABOSM. If you get a chance thry Googling them. Here a search for '“INCENSE” The random Smilies are just part of pasting from the program.





INCENSE
A fragrant composition prepared by the “art of the apothecary.” It consisted of four ingredients “beaten small” (Ex. 30:34-36). That which was not thus prepared was called “strange incense” (Ex. 30:9). It was offered along with every grain offering; and besides was daily offered on the golden altar in the holy place, and on the great day of atonement was burnt by the high priest in the holy of holies (Ex. 30:7, 8). It was the symbol of prayer (Ps. 141:1, 2; Rev. 5:8; 8:3, 4).

Incense
See picture, Various incense altars from Palestine.
 (, ; in Jer 44:21, , ; in Mal 1:11,
, , “In every place incense shall be offered unto my name”; the word
, , translated “incense” in several passages in Isa and Jer in the
King James Version, is properly “frankincense,” and is so rendered in the
Revised Version (British and American)): The offering of incense, or burning of
aromatic substances, is common in the religious ceremonies of nearly all nations
(Egyptians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Phoenicians, etc.), and it is natural to find it
holding a prominent place in the tabernacle and temple-worship of Israel. The
newer critical theory that incense was a late importation into the religion of
Israel, and that the altar of incense described in Ex 30:1ff is a post-exilian
invention, rests on presuppositions which are not here admitted, and is in
contradiction to the express notices of the altar of incense in 1 Ki 6:20, 22; 7:48;
9:25; compare 2 Ch 4:19 (see discussion of the subject by Delitzsch in Luthardt’s
Zeitschrift, 1880, 113ff). In the denunciation of Eli in 1 Sam 2:27ff, the burning
of incense is mentioned as one of the functions of the priesthood (2:28). The
“smoke” that filled the temple in Isaiah’s vision (Isa 6:4) may be presumed to be
the smoke of incense. The word  itself properly denotes. “smoke.” For
the altar of incense see the article on that subject, and TABERNACLE and
TEMPLE. The incense used in the tabernacle service—called “sweet incense”
(, Ex 25:6, etc.)—was compounded according to a
definite prescription of the perfumes, stacte, onycha, galbanum and pure
frankincense (Ex 30:34 f), and incense not so compounded was rejected as
“strange incense” (, Ex 30:9). In the offering of incense,
burning coals from the altar of burnt offering were borne in a censer and put
upon the altar of incense (the “golden altar” before the oracle), then the fragrant
incense was sprinkled on the fire (compare Lk 1:9 f). Ample details of the
rabbinical rules about incense may be seen in the article “Incense,” in DB. See
CENSER.
Figuratively, incense was symbolical of ascending prayer. The multitude
were praying while Zacharias offered incense (Lk 1:10, èõìßáìá, ),
and in Rev 5:8; 8:3 f, the incense in the heavenly temple is connected and even
identified (5:8) with “the prayers of the saints.”