θυσιαστήριον

θυσιαστήριον, -ου, τό

(θυσιάζω, to sacrifice), [in LXX (where the word first appears) very freq., nearly always for מַדְבַּח ;]

an altar:

(a) generally, Jak 2,21 pl., Rom 11,3 (LXX); metaphorically, Hebr 13,10 (see Westc., in l, and esp. his add, note on the history of the word, 455 ff.);

(b) of the altar of burnt-offering in the Temple, Matt 5,23-24; 23,18-20, 35, Luk 11,51, 1 Kor 9,13; 10,18, Hebr 7,13, Åb 11,1;

(with) of the altar of incense in the sanctuary (2 Mos 30,1, al.), Luk 1,11; symbolically in Heaven, Åb 6,9; 8,3; 9,13; 14,18; 16,7 (Cremer, 292).†