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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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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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Joel 1:13
H4196

Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.

Joel 2:17
H4196

Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?

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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KJV English usageExact token counts, verse counts, first/last occurrence, and book distribution come from the canonical TWBC PCE KJV index.
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Original Word / Strong'sHebrew, Aramaic, and Greek links attach by exact verse + KJV token position. No global “English word always equals Strong's ID” rule is used.

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