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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 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 - Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:7 - Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:8 - And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:4 - to the place of the altar which he had made there at first. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:18 - Then Abram moved his tent, and went and dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamre,[fn] which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:9 - Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:25 - So he built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD, and he pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:20 - Then he erected an altar there and called it El Elohe Israel.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:1 - Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there; and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:3 - “Then let us arise and go up to Bethel; and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me in the way which I have gone.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:7 - And he built an altar there and called the place El Bethel,[fn] because there God appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:15 - And Moses built an altar and called its name, The-LORD-Is-My-Banner;[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:24 - ‘An altar of earth you shall make for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I record My name I will come to you, and I will bless you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:25 - ‘And if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:26 - ‘Nor shall you go up by steps to My altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed on it.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:14 - “But if a man acts with premeditation against his neighbor, to kill him by treachery, you shall take him 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 all the words of the LORD. And he rose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:6 - And Moses took half the blood and put it in basins, and half the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:1 - “You shall make an altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide—the altar shall be square—and its height shall be three cubits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:3 - “Also you shall make its pans to receive its ashes, and its shovels and its basins and its forks and its firepans; you shall make all its utensils of bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:5 - “You shall put it under the rim of the altar beneath, that the network may be midway up the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:6 - “And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:7 - “The poles shall be put in the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar to bear it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 28:43

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:43 - “They shall be on Aaron and on his sons when they come into the tabernacle of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister in the holy place, that they do not incur iniquity and die. It shall be a statute forever to him and his descendants after him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:12 - “You shall take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour all the blood beside the base of the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:13 - “And you shall take all the fat that covers the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to 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 shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood and sprinkle it all around on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:18

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:21 - “And you shall take some of the blood that is on the altar, and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and on his garments, on his sons and on the garments of his sons with him; and he and his garments shall be hallowed, and his sons and his sons’ garments with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:25 - “You shall receive them back from their hands and burn them on the altar as a burnt offering, as a sweet 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 - “And you shall offer a bull every day as a sin offering for atonement. You shall cleanse the altar when you make atonement for it, and you shall anoint it to sanctify it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:37

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:37 - “Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and sanctify it. And the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar must be holy.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:38

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:38 - “Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs of the first year, day by day continually.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:44

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:44 - “So I will consecrate the tabernacle of meeting and the altar. I will also consecrate both Aaron and his sons to minister to Me as priests.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:1 - “You shall make an altar to burn incense on; you shall make it of acacia wood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:18 - “You shall also make a laver of bronze, with its base also of bronze, for washing. You shall put it between the tabernacle of meeting and the altar. And you shall put water in it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:20 - “When they go into the tabernacle of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to the LORD, they shall wash with water, lest they die.

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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, and the altar of incense;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:28 - “the altar of burnt offering with 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 and its utensils, the pure gold lampstand with all its utensils, the altar of incense,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:5 - So when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow is a feast to the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:16 - ‘the altar of burnt offering with its bronze grating, its poles, all its utensils, and the laver and its base;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:1 - He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood; five cubits was its length and five cubits its width—it was square—and its height was three cubits.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:3 - He made all the utensils for the altar: the pans, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the firepans; all its utensils he made of bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:4 - And he made a grate of bronze network for the altar, under its rim, midway from the bottom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:31 - the sockets for the court all around, the bases for the court gate, all the pegs for the tabernacle, and all the pegs for the court all around.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:38

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:38 - the gold altar, the anointing oil, and the sweet incense; the screen for the tabernacle door;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:5 - “You shall also set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the Testimony, and put up the screen for the door of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:6 - “Then you shall set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:10 - “You shall anoint the altar of the burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar. The altar shall be most holy.

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