TBESH · H4196
מִזְבֵּחַ · miz.be.ach · altar
altar
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מִזְבֵּחַ (miz.be.ach) means “altar” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: miz-bay'-akh Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
מִזְבֵּחַ · miz.be.ach · altar
altar
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from H2076 (זָבַח); an altar
KJV glosses: altar.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the altar | 128 |
| of the altar | 53 |
| an altar | 38 |
| on the altar | 30 |
| altar | 28 |
| the altars | 16 |
| altars | 13 |
| and the altar | 11 |
| their altars | 9 |
| for the altar | 7 |
| my altar | 7 |
| it on the altar | 6 |
| your altar | 5 |
| your altars | 5 |
| and altars | 3 |
| it | 3 |
| on each altar | 3 |
| and altar | 2 |
| by the altar | 2 |
| his altar | 2 |
| o altar | 2 |
| they smashed the altars | 2 |
| altar there | 1 |
| an altar for ourselves | 1 |
| an altar of | 1 |
| and for the altar | 1 |
| and his altars | 1 |
| and on each altar | 1 |
| and the altar was | 1 |
| and the altars | 1 |
| baals altar | 1 |
| fires on my altar | 1 |
| from the altar | 1 |
| from the bronze altar | 1 |
| in the | 1 |
| near your altars | 1 |
| of the new altar | 1 |
| of their altars | 1 |
| the altar witness | 1 |
| the new altar | 1 |
| their altars will be | 1 |
| then the altar | 1 |
| there was an altar | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| upon the altar | 65 |
| of the altar | 59 |
| the altar | 48 |
| an altar | 29 |
| altar | 25 |
| and the altar | 16 |
| altars | 14 |
| on the altar | 11 |
| there an altar | 9 |
| the altars | 8 |
| their altars | 7 |
| unto the altar | 7 |
| against the altar | 4 |
| and the altars | 4 |
| from the altar | 4 |
| them upon the altar | 4 |
| and for the altar | 3 |
| for the altar | 3 |
| from off the altar | 3 |
| his altar | 3 |
| it upon the altar | 3 |
| thine altar | 3 |
| thine altars | 3 |
| to the altar | 3 |
| upon mine altar | 3 |
| and by the altar | 2 |
| and whose altars | 2 |
| behold the altar | 2 |
| by the altar | 2 |
| his altars | 2 |
| it unto the altar | 2 |
| on mine altar | 2 |
| thereof upon the altar | 2 |
| this altar | 2 |
| upon thine altar | 2 |
| us an altar | 2 |
| you an altar | 2 |
| all on the altar | 1 |
| along by the altar | 1 |
| also the whole altar | 1 |
| and all the altars | 1 |
| and his altars | 1 |
| and it shall be an altar | 1 |
| and on the altar | 1 |
| and your altars | 1 |
| beside the altar | 1 |
| both that altar | 1 |
| every altar | 1 |
| from between the altar | 1 |
| from mine altar | 1 |
| he an altar | 1 |
| him altars | 1 |
| him from mine altar | 1 |
| him on the altar | 1 |
| it and it shall be an altar | 1 |
| it on the altar | 1 |
| it to you upon the altar | 1 |
| me an altar | 1 |
| moreover the altar | 1 |
| o altar | 1 |
| of it upon the altar | 1 |
| of them upon the altar | 1 |
| of your altars | 1 |
| on their altars | 1 |
| shall there be an altar | 1 |
| that your altars | 1 |
| there upon the altars | 1 |
| thereof both the altar | 1 |
| to the altars | 1 |
| unto mine altar | 1 |
| upon that altar | 1 |
| upon their altars | 1 |
| yea their altars | 1 |
| your altars | 1 |
Page 5 of 7. 338 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
It was reported to King Solomon: “Joab has fled to the tent of the LORD and is now beside the altar.” So Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, strike him down!”
Read word by wordNow the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for it was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on the altar there.
Read word by wordThe inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
Read word by wordSo he overlaid with gold the whole interior of the temple, until everything was completely finished. He also overlaid with gold the entire altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.
Read word by wordSolomon also made all the furnishings for the house of the LORD: the golden altar; the golden table on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;
Read word by wordThen Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,
Read word by wordWhen a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple,
Read word by wordNow when Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and petition to the LORD, he got up before the altar of the LORD, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven.
Read word by wordOn that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar before the LORD was too small to contain all these offerings.
Read word by wordThree times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD, burning incense with them before the LORD. So he completed the temple.
Read word by wordAnd Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.
Read word by wordOn the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had set up in Bethel. So he ordained a feast for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.
Read word by wordSuddenly, as Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD.
Read word by wordAnd he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.’”
Read word by wordThat day the man of God gave a sign, saying, “The LORD has spoken this sign: ‘Surely the altar will be split apart, and the ashes upon it will be poured out.’”
Read word by wordNow when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back.
Read word by wordAnd the altar was split apart, and the ashes poured out, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.
Read word by wordfor the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria will surely come to pass.”
Read word by wordFirst, Ahab set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he had built in Samaria.
Read word by wordAnd they took the bull that was given them, prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, shouting, “O Baal, answer us!” But there was no sound, and no one answered as they leaped around the altar they had made.
Read word by wordThen Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” So all the people approached him, and he repaired the altar of the LORD that had been torn down.
Read word by wordAnd with the stones, Elijah built an altar in the name of the LORD. Then he dug a trench around the altar large enough to hold two seahs of seed.
Read word by wordSo the water ran down around the altar and even filled the trench.
Read word by word“I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well.”
Read word by word“I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well.”
Read word by wordAnd the guards stood with weapons in hand surrounding the king by the altar and the temple, from the south side to the north side of the temple.
Read word by wordSo all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars. And Jehoiada the priest posted guards for the house of the LORD.
Read word by wordThen Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the house of the LORD. There the priests who guarded the threshold put all the money brought into the house of the LORD.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 12.10
Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria. On seeing the altar in Damascus, King Ahaz sent Uriah the priest a model of the altar and complete plans for its construction.
Read word by wordAnd Uriah the priest built the altar according to all the instructions King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, and he completed it before King Ahaz returned.
Read word by wordWhen the king came back from Damascus and saw the altar, he approached it and presented offerings on it.
Read word by wordHe offered his burnt offering and his grain offering, poured out his drink offering, and splattered the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.
Read word by wordHe also took the bronze altar that stood before the LORD from the front of the temple (between the new altar and the house of the LORD) and he put it on the north side of the new altar.
Read word by wordThen King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, “Offer on the great altar the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering, and the king’s burnt offering and grain offering, as well as the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings of all the people of the land. Splatter on the altar all the blood of the burnt offerings and sacrifices. But I will use the bronze altar to seek guidance.”
Read word by wordBut if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?
Read word by wordFor he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.
Read word by wordManasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”
Read word by wordIn both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.
Read word by wordAlthough the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.
Read word by wordHe pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.
Read word by wordHe even pulled down the altar at Bethel, the high place set up by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. Then he burned the high place, ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole.
Read word by wordAnd as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had foretold these things.
Read word by wordThen the king asked, “What is this monument I see?” And the men of the city replied, “It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things that you have done to the altar of Bethel.”
Read word by wordOn the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
Read word by wordBut Aaron and his sons did all the work of the Most Holy Place. They presented the offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 6.34
to regularly present burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offerings, morning and evening, according to all that was written in the Law of the LORD, which He had commanded Israel to keep.
Read word by wordThen the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Read word by wordThen David said to Ornan, “Grant me the site of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the LORD. Sell it to me for the full price, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”
Read word by wordAnd there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. He called upon the LORD, who answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.
Read word by wordFor the tabernacle of the LORD that Moses had made in the wilderness and the altar of burnt offering were presently at the high place in Gibeon,
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