Bible Dictionaries
Platter

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