Lexicon thumiatérion: Censer, Incense Burner Original Word: θυμιατήριον Strong's Exhaustive Concordance an altar of incense, a censerFrom a derivative of thumiao; a place of fumigation, i.e. The alter of incense (in the Temple) -- censer. see GREEK thumiao NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom thumiaó and -térion (suff. denoting place) Definition altar of incense, a censer NASB Translation altar of incense (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2369: θυμιατήριονθυμιατήριον, θυμιατηριου, τό (θυμιάω), properly, a utensil for fumigating or burning incense (cf. Winer's Grammar, 96 (91)); hence: 1. a censer: 2 Chronicles 26:19; Ezekiel 8:11; Herodotus 4, 162; Thucydides 6, 46; Diodorus 13, 3; Josephus, Antiquities 4, 2, 4; 8, 3, 8; Aelian v. h. 12, 51. 2. the altar of incense: Philo, rer. div. haer. § 46; vit. Moys. iii. § 7; Josephus, Antiquities 3, 6, 8; 3, 8, 3; b. j. 5, 5, 5; Clement of Alexandria; Origen; and so in Hebrews 9:4 ((where Tr marginal reading brackets), also 2 Tr marginal reading in brackets), where see Bleek, Lünemann, Delitzsch, Kurtz, in opposed to those ((A. V. included)) who think it means censer; (yet cf. Harnack in the Studien und Kritiken for 1876, p. 572f). |
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