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Lexicon :: Strong's G2379 - thysiastērion

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θυσιαστήριον
Transliteration
thysiastērion (Key)
Pronunciation
thoo-see-as-tay'-ree-on
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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.
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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 39 times in 35 verses in '2Ch' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:5 - Moreover, the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of the LORD. And Solomon and the assembly sought it[fn] out.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:6 - And Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the LORD, which was at the tent of meeting, and offered a thousand burnt offerings on it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:1 - He made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits[fn] long and twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:11 - Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of God:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:19 - So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God: the golden altar, the tables for the bread of the Presence,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:12 - and all the Levitical singers, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, their sons and kinsmen, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and lyres, stood east of the altar with 120 priests who were trumpeters;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:12 - Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:22 - “If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:7 - And Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD, for there he offered the burnt offering and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar Solomon had made could not hold the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:9 - And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for they had kept the dedication of the altar seven days and the feast seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:12 - Then Solomon offered up burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD that he had built before the vestibule,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:3 - He took away the foreign altars and the high places and broke down the pillars and cut down the Asherim

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:5 - He also took out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the incense altars. And the kingdom had rest under him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:8 - As soon as Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Azariah the son of Oded, he took courage and put away the detestable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities that he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of the LORD that was in front of the vestibule of the house of the LORD.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:10 - And he set all the people as a guard for the king, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the south side of the house to the north side of the house, around the altar and the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:17 - Then all the people went to the house of Baal and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:16 - But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the LORD his God and entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:19 - Then Uzziah was angry. Now he had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and when he became angry with the priests, leprosy[fn] broke out on his forehead in the presence of the priests in the house of the LORD, by the altar of incense.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:24 - And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and he shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:18 - Then they went in to Hezekiah the king and said, “We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the table for the showbread and all its utensils.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:19 - All the utensils that King Ahaz discarded in his reign when he was faithless, we have made ready and consecrated, and behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:21 - And they brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats for a sin offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Judah. And he commanded the priests, the sons of Aaron, to offer them on the altar of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:22 - So they slaughtered the bulls, and the priests received the blood and threw it against the altar. And they slaughtered the rams, and their blood was thrown against the altar. And they slaughtered the lambs, and their blood was thrown against the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:24 - and the priests slaughtered them and made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel. For the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:27 - Then Hezekiah commanded that the burnt offering be offered on the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song to the LORD began also, and the trumpets, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:14 - They set to work and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for burning incense they took away and threw into the brook Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:12 - Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, “Before one altar you shall worship, and on it you shall burn your sacrifices”?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:4 - And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:5 - And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:15 - And he took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside of the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:16 - He also restored the altar of the LORD and offered on it sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and he commanded Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:4 - And they chopped down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and he cut down the incense altars that stood above them. And he broke in pieces the Asherim and the carved and the metal images, and he made dust of them and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:5 - He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7 - he broke down the altars and beat the Asherim and the images into powder and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:16 - So all the service of the LORD was prepared that day, to keep the Passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, according to the command of King Josiah.
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