We Three Kings
Epiphany season song
We Three Kings is a Christmas carol recounting the journey of the Magi—the wise men who, according to the Gospel of Matthew, followed a star to bring gifts to the infant Jesus.
The song's full title is "We Three Kings of Orient Are," and it moves through verses for each gift: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Written in 1857, it remains a staple of holiday services and concerts.
- MagiEastern priests, biblical visitors
- BethlehemNativity's traditional setting
- starLuminous astronomical object
- guiding starOrienting celestial body
- goldElement seventy-nine
frankincense · myrrh · bearing gifts · Epiphany · camels · Orient · nativity · baby Jesus · gifts · journey · Christmas · Christmas carol · carol · Caspar · Melchior · Balthasar · wise men · desert
- Christmas CarolsSilent Night, Jingle Bells, The First Noel, carols, carolers
- sacred musichymns, hymn, anthem, anthems, gospel
- hymnsAmazing Grace, Old Rugged Cross, Morning Has Broken, hymn, hymnal
We Three KingsJingle Bells
Classic holiday carol
Frosty the Snowman · Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer · White Christmas · Good King Wenceslas
three, kings, king, kingly, kingship, kingdom, kingdoms, kinghood, kingless