Strong's Number 2379
Transliteration:
thusiasterion
{thoo-see-as-tay'-ree-on}
Word Origin:
from a derivative of
2378TDNT:
3:180,342
Part of Speech:
noun neuter
Usage in the KJV:
altar 23
Total: 23
Definition:
- the altar for slaying and burning of victims used of
- the altar of whole burnt offerings which stood in the court of the priests in the temple at Jerusalem
- the altar of incense which stood in the sanctuary or the Holy Place
- any other altar
- 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