- θυμιατήριον
- altar of incense
- (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.
- θυμιατήριον
- incense altar
- G:N-N
- θυμιατήριον, -ου, τό
(< θυμιάω), [in LXX:(קְטֹרֶת), 4Ma.7:11 * ;]Refs
2Ch.26:19, Eze.8:11
__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).†
(AS)
1) a utensil for fumigating or burning incense
2) an altar of incense
2) an altar of incense
θυμιαστήριον
thumiastērion
thoo-mee-as-tay'-ree-on
From a derivative of G2370; a place of fumigation, that is, the altar of incense (in the Temple)
KJV Usage: censer.