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Platter
Bible Dictionary of Animals, Plants and other Objects
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Comments: Greek Silver serving platter
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Comments: Silver dish with scene showing Achilles being discovered by Odysseus, Silver Treasure from Kaiseraugst (330-340 AD), Augusta Raurica, Switzerland
From ISBE: Platter, plat'-er:
(1) qe`arah, "a deep dish" (Numbers 7:13; Numbers 7:84; Numbers 7:85). In the King James Version and the English Revised Version "charger," the American Standard Revised Version "platter" (compare Exodus 25:29; Exodus 37:16); the Septuagint trublion, and in the New Testament rendered "dish" (Matthew 26:23; Mark 14:20). In Ezra 1:9, the American Standard Revised Version agharTal, rendered "platter," the King James Version and the English Revised Version "chargers"; probably a deep dish or basin used in sacrificial slaughter.
(2) paropsis, originally a side dish, for relishes, entrees, but of dishes for food, in general, especially meats, fish, etc., used with poterion, "cup" or "drinking vessel" (Matthew 23:25); also pinax, originally a large wooden dish or plate (Luke 11:39); rendered "charger" in Matthew 14:8; Matthew 14:11 the King James Version, and Mark 6:25; Mark 6:28 the King James Version and the English Revised Version.
Edward Bagby Pollard
Verses:
- Numbers 7:13
- Numbers 7:19
- Numbers 7:25
- Numbers 7:31
- Numbers 7:37
- Numbers 7:43
- Numbers 7:49
- Numbers 7:55
- Numbers 7:61
- Numbers 7:67
- Numbers 7:73
- Numbers 7:79
- Numbers 7:84
- Numbers 7:85
- Matthew 14:8
- Matthew 14:11
- Mark 6:25
- Mark 6:28
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