Altar
הַרְאֵלStrong’s H2025harel (har-el)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Harel is the Hebrew word usually translated “altar hearth”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns.”
Meaning
- Altar, altar hearth
How it's translated
- and the altar hearth 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
הַרְאֵל harel · altar
altar, altar hearth
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “altar” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AL'TAR, noun
[Latin altare, probably from the same root as altus, high.
- A mount; a table or elevated place, on which sacrifices where anciently offered to some deity.
- In modern churches, the communion table; and, figuratively, a church; a place of worship.
- In scripture, Christ is called the altar of Christians, he being the atoning sacrifice for sin.“We have an altar whereof they have no right to eat, who serve tabernacles” Hebrews 13:10
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.