frankincense

«frankincense» in Mova's school dictionary: A sweet-smelling gum (resin) from certain trees in Arabia… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (frankincense, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) A sweet-smelling gum (resin) from certain trees in Arabia and Africa, burned to make perfumed smoke. tree →

2) (Bible) One of the three gifts the wise men gave the baby Jesus, with gold and myrrh; Christians see it as a sign that Jesus is God, since it was burned in worship. tree →

sense in the lessons

In religion lessons and nativity plays frankincense is one of the Magi's gifts. In church life some churches burn incense in worship. In science, it is an example of a resin from tree sap. Phrases: «gold, frankincense and myrrh».

examples

• The wise men brought gold, frankincense and myrrh. tree →
• Frankincense smells sweet when it burns. tree →
• In the nativity play I carried the frankincense. tree →
• Frankincense comes from the sap of a tree. tree →
• The church filled with the smell of frankincense. tree →
• People have traded frankincense for thousands of years. tree →
• So she put a bit of frankincense before him and asked him to tell what it was. tree →

note

Uncountable: not «a frankincense». Pronounced FRANK-in-sense. «Incense» is the general word for anything burned to smell nice. Often listed with gold and myrrh.

In the corpora

• And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon; it is a meal-offering.
• I have not burdened thee with a meal-offering, nor wearied thee with frankincense.
• To what purpose is to Me the frankincense that cometh from Sheba, and the sweet cane, from a far country?
• Spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «frankincense» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.