Quick Definition
altar of incense
Strong's Definition
a place of fumigation, i.e. the alter of incense (in the Temple)
Derivation: from a derivative of G2370 (θυμιάω);
KJV Usage: censer
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
θυμιατήριον, θυμιατηριου, τό (θυμιάω), properly, a utensil for fumigating or burning incense (cf. Winer's Grammar, 96 (91)); hence:
1. a censer: 2Ch_26:19; Eze_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 Heb_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).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
θυμιατήριον thumiatērion 1x
an altar of burning incense, Heb_9:4
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
θυμιατήριον , -ου , τό
( < θυμιάω ),
[in LXX : 2Ch_26:19 , Eze_8:11 ( H7004 ), 4Ma_7:11 * ;]
1. as in cl . ( Hdt ., iv, 162; Thuc ., vi, 46) and LXX , a censer: Heb_9:4 (but v. infr ., and cf. Westc ., in l ).
2. As in Philo ., rer. di v. , § 46, FlJ , Ant., iv, 2, 4, al. , the altar of incense: He, l.c . (but v. supr . and cf. MM , Exp., xv).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
θυμιατήριον [page 294]
Some quotations may be given from Syll. Thus in 804 .19 (? ii/A.D.) the patient in the Asclepieum sees παιδάριον ἡγεῖσθαι θυμιατήριον ἔχον ἀτμίζο [ν : it is censer here, obviously. The same seems to be the case in 583 .12 (i/A.D.) so Dittenberger and 588 .28 (ii/B.C.), though there is nothing decisive : naturally in many contexts we cannot say whether the censer was fixed or movable. So also 734 .124 . In P Oxy III. 521 .19 (ii/A.D.) a θυμιατήριον is mentioned in a list of articles, perhaps belonging to some temple, and a θυμιατήριον is also found along with a φιάλη ἀργυρῆ καὶ σπον [δ ]ε̣ῖ [ο ]ν lying ἐπὶ τρίποδι in a triclinium (BGU II. 388 ii. 22 ii/A.D.) : cf. BGU II. 387 ii. 8, .20 , 488 .11 (both ii/A.D.).
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
θυμιατήριον, -ου, τό
(θυμιάω), [in LXX: 2Ch.26:19, Eze.8:11 (קְטֹרֶת), 4Ma.7:11 * ;]
__1. as in cl. (Hdt., iv, 162; Thuc., vi, 46) and LXX, a censer: Heb.9:4 (but see infr., and cf. Westc., in l).
__2. As in Philo., rer. div., § 46, FlJ, Ant., iv, 2, 4, al., the altar of incense: He, l.with (but see supr. and cf. MM, Exp., xv).†
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