Lexicon :: Strong's H4196 - mizbēaḥ

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

The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring[fn] I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.

to the site where he had built the altar. And Abram called on the name of the LORD there.

So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.

When they arrived at the place that God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac[fn] and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.

So he built an altar there, called on the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there. Isaac’s servants also dug a well there.

And he set up an altar there and called it God, the God of Israel.[fn]

God said to Jacob, “Get up! Go to Bethel and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

“We must get up and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me everywhere I have gone.”

Jacob built an altar there and called the place El-bethel[fn] because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

And Moses built an altar and named it, “The LORD Is My Banner.”[fn]

“Make an earthen altar for me, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your flocks and herds. I will come to you and bless you in every place where I cause my name to be remembered.

“If a person schemes and willfully[fn] acts against his neighbor to murder him, you must take him from my altar to be put to death.

And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. He rose early the next morning and set up an altar and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel at the base of the mountain.

Moses took half the blood and set it in basins; the other half of the blood he splattered on the altar.

“You are to construct the altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, 7 ¹/₂ feet long, and 7 ¹/₂ feet wide;[fn] it must be 4 ¹/₂ feet high.[fn]

“Set it below, under the altar’s ledge,[fn] so that the mesh comes halfway up[fn] the altar.

“These must be worn by Aaron and his sons whenever they enter the tent of meeting or approach the altar to minister in the sanctuary area, so that they do not incur guilt and die. This is to be a permanent statute for Aaron and for his future descendants.

“Take some of the bull’s blood and apply it to the horns of the altar with your finger; then pour out all the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.

“You are to slaughter the ram, take its blood, and splatter it on all sides of the altar.

“Then burn the whole ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to the LORD. It is a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.

“Slaughter the ram, take some of its blood, and put it on Aaron’s right earlobe, on his sons’ right earlobes, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Splatter the remaining blood on all sides of the altar.

“Take them from their hands and burn them on the altar on top of the burnt offering, as a pleasing aroma before the LORD; it is a food offering to the LORD.

“Sacrifice a bull as a sin offering each day for atonement. Purify[fn] the altar when you make atonement for it, and anoint it in order to consecrate it.

“I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar; I will also consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests.

“You are to make an altar for the burning of incense; make it of acacia wood.

“Make a bronze basin for washing and a bronze stand for it. Set it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.

“Whenever they enter the tent of meeting or approach the altar to minister by burning a food offering to the LORD, they must wash with water so that they will not die.

“the table with all its utensils, the lampstand with its utensils, the altar of incense,

“the table with its utensils, the pure gold lampstand with all its utensils, the altar of incense,

When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of it and made an announcement: “There will be a festival to the LORD tomorrow.”

“Instead, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and chop down their Asherah poles.

“the altar of incense with its poles; the anointing oil and the fragrant incense; the entryway screen for the entrance to the tabernacle;

He made the altar of incense out of acacia wood. It was square, eighteen inches long and eighteen inches wide; it was thirty-six inches high.[fn] Its horns were of one piece with it.

Bezalel constructed the altar of burnt offering from acacia wood. It was square, 7 ¹/₂ feet long and 7 ¹/₂ feet wide,[fn] and was 4 ¹/₂ feet[fn] high.

He made all the altar’s utensils: the pots, shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans; he made all its utensils of bronze.

Then he inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar in order to carry it with them. He constructed the altar with boards so that it was hollow.