θυσιαστήριον

Ancient Greek

From θῠσῐᾰστήρῐος (thŭsĭăstḗrĭos, “sacrificial”) from θῠσῐᾰ́ζω (thŭsĭắzō, “to sacrifice”).

θῠσῐᾰστήρῐον • (thŭsĭăstḗrĭon) n (genitive θῠσῐᾰστηρῐ́ου); second declension

an altar (usually a Christian or Jewish altar)
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Exodus 27.1
- 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 23:18
- 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 8.4.1

Second declension of τὸ θῠσῐᾰστήρῐον; τοῦ θῠσῐᾰστηρῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ θῠσῐᾰστήρῐον tò thŭsĭăstḗrĭon	τὼ θῠσῐᾰστηρῐ́ω tṑ thŭsĭăstērĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ θῠσῐᾰστήρῐᾰ tằ thŭsĭăstḗrĭă
Genitive	τοῦ θῠσῐᾰστηρῐ́ου toû thŭsĭăstērĭ́ou	τοῖν θῠσῐᾰστηρῐ́οιν toîn thŭsĭăstērĭ́oin	τῶν θῠσῐᾰστηρῐ́ων tôn thŭsĭăstērĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ θῠσῐᾰστηρῐ́ῳ tōî thŭsĭăstērĭ́ōi	τοῖν θῠσῐᾰστηρῐ́οιν toîn thŭsĭăstērĭ́oin	τοῖς θῠσῐᾰστηρῐ́οις toîs thŭsĭăstērĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ θῠσῐᾰστήρῐον tò thŭsĭăstḗrĭon	τὼ θῠσῐᾰστηρῐ́ω tṑ thŭsĭăstērĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ θῠσῐᾰστήρῐᾰ tằ thŭsĭăstḗrĭă
Vocative	θῠσῐᾰστήρῐον thŭsĭăstḗrĭon	θῠσῐᾰστηρῐ́ω thŭsĭăstērĭ́ō	θῠσῐᾰστήρῐᾰ thŭsĭăstḗrĭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“θυσιαστήριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“θυσιαστήριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
θυσιαστήριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
G2379 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible