Help QuickNav Adv. Options
ESV

ESV

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's G2379 - thysiastērion

Choose a new font size and typeface
θυσιαστήριον
Transliteration
thysiastērion (Key)
Pronunciation
thoo-see-as-tay'-ree-on
Listen
Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From a derivative of θυσία (G2378)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:180,342

Trench's Synonyms: xcvii. βωμός, θυσιαστήριον.

Strong’s Definitions

θυσιαστήριον thysiastḗrion, thoo-see-as-tay'-ree-on; from a derivative of G2378; a place of sacrifice, i.e. an altar (special or genitive case, literal or figurative):—altar.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x

The KJV translates Strong's G2379 in the following manner: altar (23x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x
The KJV translates Strong's G2379 in the following manner: altar (23x).

  1. the altar for slaying and burning of victims used of

    1. the altar of whole burnt offerings which stood in the court of the priests in the temple at Jerusalem

    2. the altar of incense which stood in the sanctuary or the Holy Place

    3. any other altar

      1. metaph., the cross on which Christ suffered an expiatory death: to eat of this altar i.e. to appropriate to one's self the fruits of Christ's expiatory death

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
θυσιαστήριον thysiastḗrion, thoo-see-as-tay'-ree-on; from a derivative of G2378; a place of sacrifice, i.e. an altar (special or genitive case, literal or figurative):—altar.
STRONGS G2379:
θυσιαστήριον, -ου, τό, (neuter of the adjective θυσιαστήριος [cf. Winer's Grammar, 96 (91)], and this from θυσιάζω to sacrifice), a word found only in Philo [e. g. vita Moys. 3 § 10, cf. § 7; Josephus, Antiquities 8, 4, 1] and the Biblical and ecclesiastical writings; Sept. times without number for מִזְבֵּחַ; properly, an altar for the slaying and burning of victims; used of:
1. the altar of whole burnt-offerings which stood in the court of the priests in the temple at Jerusalem [B. D. under the word Altar]: Matthew 5:23; Matthew 23:18-20, 35; Luke 11:51; 1 Corinthians 9:13; 1 Corinthians 10:18; Hebrews 7:13; Revelation 11:1.
2. the altar of incense, which stood in the sanctuary or Holy place [B. D. as above]: τὸ θυσιαστ. τοῦ θυμιάματος, Luke 1:11 (Exodus 30:1); [symbolically] in Heaven: Revelation 6:9; Revelation 8:3, 5; Revelation 9:13; Revelation 14:18; Revelation 16:7.
3. any other altar, James 2:21; plural Romans 11:3; metaphorically, the cross on which Christ suffered an expiatory death: to eat of this altar i. e. to appropriate to oneself the fruits of Christ's expiatory death, Hebrews 13:10.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Exodus
30:1
Matthew
5:23; 23:18; 23:19; 23:20; 23:35
Luke
1:11; 11:51
Romans
11:3
1 Corinthians
9:13; 10:18
Hebrews
7:13; 13:10
James
2:21
Revelation
6:9; 8:3; 8:5; 9:13; 11:1; 14:18; 16:7

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2379 matches the Greek θυσιαστήριον (thysiastērion),
which occurs 377 times in 312 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 3 / 7 (Lev 8:24–Deu 33:10)

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:24 - Then he presented Aaron’s sons, and Moses put some of the blood on the lobes of their right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet. And Moses threw the blood against the sides of the altar.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:28 - Then Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering. This was an ordination offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:30 - Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron and his garments, and also on his sons and his sons’ garments. So he consecrated Aaron and his garments, and his sons and his sons’ garments with him.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:7 - Then Moses said to Aaron, “Draw near to the altar and offer your sin offering and your burnt offering and make atonement for yourself and for the people, and bring the offering of the people and make atonement for them, as the LORD has commanded.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:8 - So Aaron drew near to the altar and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:9 - And the sons of Aaron presented the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar and poured out the blood at the base of the altar.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:10 - But the fat and the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver from the sin offering he burned on the altar, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:12 - Then he killed the burnt offering, and Aaron’s sons handed him the blood, and he threw it against the sides of the altar.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:13 - And they handed the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head, and he burned them on the altar.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:14 - And he washed the entrails and the legs and burned them with the burnt offering on the altar.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:17 - And he presented the grain offering, took a handful of it, and burned it on the altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:18 - Then he killed the ox and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings for the people. And Aaron’s sons handed him the blood, and he threw it against the sides of the altar.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:20 - they put the fat pieces on the breasts, and he burned the fat pieces on the altar,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:24 - And fire came out from before the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the pieces of fat on the altar, and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:9 - “Drink no wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:12 - Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his surviving sons: “Take the grain offering that is left of the LORD’s food offerings, and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for it is most holy.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:20 - And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:12 - And he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and he shall bring it inside the veil

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:18 - Then he shall go out to the altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it on the horns of the altar all around.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:20 - “And when he has made an end of atoning for the Holy Place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall present the live goat.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:25 - And the fat of the sin offering he shall burn on the altar.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:33 - He shall make atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make atonement for the tent of meeting and for the altar, and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:6 - And the priest shall throw the blood on the altar of the LORD at the entrance of the tent of meeting and burn the fat for a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:11 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:23 - but he shall not go through the veil or approach the altar, because he has a blemish, that he may not profane my sanctuaries,[fn] for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:22 - Animals blind or disabled or mutilated or having a discharge or an itch or scabs you shall not offer to the LORD or give them to the LORD as a food offering on the altar.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:31 - And their guard duty involved the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which the priests minister, and the screen; all the service connected with these.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:11 - And over the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue and cover it with a covering of goatskin, and shall put in its poles.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:13 - And they shall take away the ashes from the altar and spread a purple cloth over it.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:14 - And they shall put on it all the utensils of the altar, which are used for the service there, the fire pans, the forks, the shovels, and the basins, all the utensils of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of goatskin, and shall put in its poles.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:25 - And the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand and shall wave the grain offering before the LORD and bring it to the altar.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:26 - And the priest shall take a handful of the grain offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:1 - On the day when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle and had anointed and consecrated it with all its furnishings and had anointed and consecrated the altar with all its utensils,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:10 - And the chiefs offered offerings for the dedication of the altar on the day it was anointed; and the chiefs offered their offering before the altar.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:11 - And the LORD said to Moses, “They shall offer their offerings, one chief each day, for the dedication of the altar.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:84

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:84 - This was the dedication offering for the altar on the day when it was anointed, from the chiefs of Israel: twelve silver plates, twelve silver basins, twelve golden dishes,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:88

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:88 - and all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication offering for the altar after it was anointed.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:38 - As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the LORD, and they became holy. Thus they shall be a sign to the people of Israel.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:39 - So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:46

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:46 - And Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, and put fire on it from off the altar and lay incense on it and carry it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:3 - They shall keep guard over you and over the whole tent, but shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary or to the altar lest they, and you, die.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:5 - And you shall keep guard over the sanctuary and over the altar, that there may never again be wrath on the people of Israel.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:7 - And you and your sons with you shall guard your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and that is within the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood as a gift,[fn] and any outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:17 - But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar and shall burn their fat as a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:27 - and offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, but the flesh you may eat.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:21 - “You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of the LORD your God that you shall make.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:4 - Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:5 - And there you shall build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You shall wield no iron tool on them;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:6 - you shall build an altar to the LORD your God of uncut[fn] stones. And you shall offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 33:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:10 - They shall teach Jacob your rules
and Israel your law;
they shall put incense before you
and whole burnt offerings on your altar.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
ESV
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
ESV
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Translations available: King James Version, New King James Version, New Living Translation, New International Version, English Standard Version, Christian Standard Bible, New American Standard Bible 2020, New American Standard Bible 1995, Legacy Standard Bible 2021, New English Translation, Revised Standard Version, American Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation, Darby Translation, Webster's Bible, Hebrew Names Version, Reina-Valera 1960, Latin Vulgate, Westminster Leningrad Codex, Septuagint, Morphological Greek New Testament, and Textus Receptus.