Altar
מַדְבַּחStrong’s H4056madbach (mad-bach)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Madbach is the Aramaic word usually translated “altar the”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.”
Meaning
- Altar
How it's translated
- altar the 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Aramaic dictionary
מַדְבַּח madbach · altar
altar Aramaic of miz.be.ach (מִזְבֵּחַ "altar" H4196)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.