thumiatérion
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thumiatérion: altar of incense, a censer
Original Word: θυμιατήριον, ου, τό
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: thumiatérion
Phonetic Spelling: (thoo-mee-as-tay'-ree-on)
Short Definition: altar of incense
Definition: (ordinarily: censer, but) either the altar of incense, or the shovel, on which the high-priest poured the coals, when he entered the Holy of Holies on the Day of Atonement.

Word Origin
from thumiaó and -térion (suff. denoting place)
Definition
altar of incense, a censer
NASB Word Usage
altar of incense (1).

STRONGS NT 2369: θυμιατήριον

θυμιατήριον, 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).



an altar of incense, a censer

From a derivative of thumiao; a place of fumigation, i.e. The alter of incense (in the Temple) -- censer.

see GREEK thumiao

Θυγατέρες — 3 Occ.
θυγατέρων — 1 Occ.
θυγατρὶ — 1 Occ.
θυγατρὸς — 4 Occ.
θυγάτριόν — 2 Occ.
θυέλλῃ — 1 Occ.
θύινον — 1 Occ.
θυμιάματα — 2 Occ.
θυμιαμάτων — 2 Occ.
θυμιάματος — 2 Occ.
θυμιᾶσαι — 1 Occ.
θυμομαχῶν — 1 Occ.
θυμοί — 2 Occ.
θυμόν — 3 Occ.
θυμός — 3 Occ.
θυμοῦ — 10 Occ.
ἐθυμώθη — 1 Occ.
θύρα — 9 Occ.
θύραι — 2 Occ.
θύραις — 2 Occ.


Strong's Greek 2369
1 Occurrence


θυμιατήριον — 1 Occ.

Hebrews 9:4 N-ANS
BIB: χρυσοῦν ἔχουσα θυμιατήριον καὶ τὴν
NAS: a golden altar of incense and the ark
KJV: the golden censer, and
INT: a golden having altar of incense and the

1 Occurrence


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