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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)
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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 27 times in 18 verses in '2Ki' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:11 - And the [fn]guards stood each with his weapons in his hand, from the right [fn]side of the house to the left [fn]side of the house, by the altar and by the house, around the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:18 - And all the people of the land came to the house of Baal and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces thoroughly, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed [fn]overseers over the house of Yahweh.

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Now King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria and saw the altar which was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the likeness of the altar and its pattern, according to all its workmanship.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:11 - So Urijah the priest built an altar; according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, thus Urijah the priest made it, [fn]before the coming of King Ahaz from Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:12 - So the king came from Damascus, and the king saw the altar; then the king drew near the altar and [fn]made offerings on it,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:13 - and offered his burnt offering and his meal offering up in smoke, and poured his drink offering and splashed the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:14 - Now as for the bronze altar, which was before Yahweh, [fn]he drew it away from the front of the house, from between his altar and the house of Yahweh, and he put it on the north side of his altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:15 - Then King Ahaz [fn]commanded Urijah the priest, saying, “Upon the great altar offer up in smoke the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering and the king’s burnt offering and his grain offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land and their grain offering and their drink offerings; and splash on it all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice. But the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:22 - “But if you say to me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God,’ is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:3 - Indeed, he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal and made an [fn]Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:4 - And he built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My name.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:5 - Indeed, he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:9 - Nevertheless the priests of the high places did not go up to the altar of Yahweh in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12 - Also, the altars which were on the roof, the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Yahweh, the king tore down; and he [fn]crushed them there and threw their dust into the brook Kidron.

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Furthermore, the altar that was at Bethel and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he tore down. Then he [fn]demolished its stones, ground them to dust, and burned the Asherah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16 - Then Josiah turned, and he saw the graves that were there on the mountain, and he sent and took the bones from the graves and burned them on the altar and defiled it according to the word of Yahweh which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:17 - Then he said, “What is this monument that I see?” And the men of the city told him, “It is the grave of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which you have done against the altar of Bethel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:20 - And all the priests of the high places who were there he [fn]slaughtered on the altars and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
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