Strong's Number 2379

Transliteration:
thusiasterion {thoo-see-as-tay'-ree-on}
Word Origin:
from a derivative of 2378
TDNT:
3:180,342
Part of Speech:
noun neuter
Usage in the KJV:
altar 23

Total: 23
Definition:
  1. the altar for slaying and burning of victims used of
    1. the altar of whole burnt offerings which stood in the court of the priests in the temple at Jerusalem
    2. the altar of incense which stood in the sanctuary or the Holy Place
    3. any other altar
      1. metaph., the cross on which Christ suffered an expiatory death: to eat of this altar i.e. to appropriate to one's self the fruits of Christ's expiatory death