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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.
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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 377 times in 312 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 7 (Gen 8:20–Exo 40:10)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:20 - Noah built an altar to the LORD. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:7 - The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:8 - Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and worshiped the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:4 - This was the place where he had first built the altar, and there Abram worshiped the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:18 - So Abram moved his tents and went to live by the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, and he built an altar to the LORD there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:9 - When they came to the place God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood on it. Next he tied up his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:25 - Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the LORD. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:20 - There he set up an altar and called it "The God of Israel is God."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:1 - Then God said to Jacob, "Go up at once to Bethel and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:3 - Let us go up at once to Bethel. Then I will make an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress and has been with me wherever I went."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:7 - He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:15 - Moses built an altar, and he called it "The LORD is my Banner,"

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:24 - 'You must make for me an altar made of earth, and you will sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I cause my name to be honored I will come to you and I will bless you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:25 - If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it of stones shaped with tools, for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:26 - And you must not go up by steps to my altar, so that your nakedness is not exposed.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:14 - But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:4 - and Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Early in the morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain and arranged twelve standing stones - according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:6 - Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and half of the blood he splashed on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:1 - "You are to make the altar of acacia wood, seven feet six inches long, and seven feet six inches wide; the altar is to be square, and its height is to be four feet six inches.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:3 - You are to make its pots for the ashes, its shovels, its tossing bowls, its meat hooks, and its fire pans - you are to make all its utensils of bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:5 - You are to put it under the ledge of the altar below, so that the network will come halfway up the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:6 - You are to make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and you are to overlay them with bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:7 - The poles are to be put into the rings so that the poles will be on two sides of the altar when carrying it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 28:43

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:43 - These must be on Aaron and his sons when they enter to the tent of meeting, or when they approach the altar to minister in the Holy Place, so that they bear no iniquity and die. It is to be a perpetual ordinance for him and for his descendants after him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:12 - and take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; all the rest of the blood you are to pour out at the base of the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:13 - You are to take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the lobe that is above the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:16 - and you are to kill the ram and take its blood and splash it all around on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:18 - and burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the LORD, a soothing aroma; it is an offering made by fire to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:21 - You are to take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle it on Aaron, on his garments, on his sons, and on his sons' garments with him, so that he may be holy, he and his garments along with his sons and his sons' garments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:25 - Then you are to take them from their hands and burn them on the altar for a burnt offering, for a soothing aroma before the LORD. It is an offering made by fire to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:36

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:36 - Every day you are to prepare a bull for a purification offering for atonement. You are to purge the altar by making atonement for it, and you are to anoint it to set it apart as holy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:37

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:37 - For seven days you are to make atonement for the altar and set it apart as holy. Then the altar will be most holy. Anything that touches the altar will be holy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:38

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:38 - "Now this is what you are to prepare on the altar every day continually: two lambs a year old.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:44

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:44 - "So I will set apart as holy the tent of meeting and the altar, and I will set apart as holy Aaron and his sons, that they may minister as priests to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:1 - "You are to make an altar for burning incense; you are to make it of acacia wood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:18 - "You are also to make a large bronze basin with a bronze stand for washing. You are to put it between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:20 - When they enter the tent of meeting, they must wash with water so that they do not die. Also, when they approach the altar to minister by burning incense as an offering made by fire to the LORD,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:27 - the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and its utensils, the altar of incense,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:28 - the altar for the burnt offering and all its utensils, and the laver and its base.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:8 - the table with its utensils, the pure lampstand with all its utensils, the altar of incense,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:5 - When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it, and Aaron made a proclamation and said, "Tomorrow will be a feast to the LORD."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:16 - the altar for the burnt offering with its bronze grating that is on it, its poles, and all its utensils; the large basin and its pedestal;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:1 - He made the altar for the burnt offering of acacia wood seven feet six inches long and seven feet six inches wide - it was square - and its height was four feet six inches.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:3 - He made all the utensils of the altar - the pots, the shovels, the tossing bowls, the meat hooks, and the fire pans - he made all its utensils of bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:4 - He made a grating for the altar, a network of bronze under its ledge, halfway up from the bottom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:31 - the bases for the courtyard all around, the bases for the gate of the courtyard, all the tent pegs of the tabernacle, and all the tent pegs of the courtyard all around.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:38

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:38 - and the gold altar, and the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense; and the curtain for the entrance to the tent;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:5 - You are to put the gold altar for incense in front of the ark of the testimony and put the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:6 - You are to put the altar for the burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:10 - Then you are to anoint the altar for the burnt offering with all its utensils; you are to sanctify the altar, and it will be the most holy altar.

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