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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Altar

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

378exact KJV occurrences 355Old Testament 23New Testament 30books containing the word 5mapped Strong's IDs 377occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 8:20

And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 16:7

And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where altar appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Genesis 1311 verses Exodus 5950 verses Leviticus 8771 verses Numbers 2423 verses Deuteronomy 86 verses Joshua 1512 verses Judges 119 verses 1 Samuel 54 verses 2 Samuel 33 verses 1 Kings 3427 verses 2 Kings 1913 verses 1 Chronicles 108 verses 2 Chronicles 2523 verses Ezra 33 verses Nehemiah 11 verses Psalms 44 verses Isaiah 66 verses Lamentations 11 verses Ezekiel 1715 verses Joel 22 verses Amos 33 verses Zechariah 22 verses Malachi 33 verses Matthew 66 verses Luke 22 verses Acts 11 verses 1 Corinthians 32 verses Hebrews 22 verses James 11 verses Revelation 87 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

GreekG2379
θυσιαστήριον

thysiastḗrion · thoo-see-as-tay'-ree-on

22 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences

a place of sacrifice, i.e. an altar (special or genitive case, literal or figurative)

Strong's KJV usage: :--altar.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Matthew 5:23Strong's last: Revelation 16:7

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GreekG1041
βωμός

bōmós · bo'-mos

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

properly, a stand, i.e. (specially) an altar

Strong's KJV usage: :--altar.

Strong's first: Acts 17:23Strong's last: Acts 17:23

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AramaicH4056
מַדְבַּח

madbach · mad-bakh'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

a sacrificial altar

Strong's KJV usage: altar.

Strong's first: Ezra 7:17Strong's last: Ezra 7:17

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Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.

EVERY OCCURRENCE

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13 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

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Genesis 8:20
H4196

And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 8:20
H4196

And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 12:7
H4196

And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

Genesis 12:8
H4196

And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

Genesis 13:4
H4196

Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

Genesis 13:18
H4196

Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.

Genesis 22:9
H4196

And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

Genesis 22:9
H4196

And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

Genesis 26:25
H4196

And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well.

Genesis 33:20
H4196

And he erected there an altar, and called it EleloheIsrael.

Genesis 35:1
H4196

And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

Genesis 35:3
H4196

And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.

Genesis 35:7
H4196

And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

altar

AL'TAR, noun [Latin altare, probably from the same root as altus, high.

1. A mount; a table or elevated place, on which sacrifices where anciently offered to some deity. Altars were originally made of turf, afterwards of stone, wood or horn; some were round, others square, others triangular. They differed also in height, but all faced the east. The principal altars of the Jews were, the altar of incense, of burnt-offerings, and of shewbread; all of shittim wood, and covered with gold or brass.

2. In modern churches, the communion table; and, figuratively, a church; a place of worship.

3. 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). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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