θυσιαστήριον

Ancient Greek

From θῠσῐᾰστήρῐος (thusiastḗrios, “sacrificial”) from θῠσῐᾰ́ζω (thusiázō, “to sacrifice”).

θῠσῐᾰστήρῐον • (thusiastḗrion) 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

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ θῠσῐᾰστήρῐον tò thusiastḗrion	τὼ θῠσῐᾰστηρῐ́ω tṑ thusiastēríō	τᾰ̀ θῠσῐᾰστήρῐᾰ tà thusiastḗria
Genitive	τοῦ θῠσῐᾰστηρῐ́ου toû thusiastēríou	τοῖν θῠσῐᾰστηρῐ́οιν toîn thusiastēríoin	τῶν θῠσῐᾰστηρῐ́ων tôn thusiastēríōn
Dative	τῷ θῠσῐᾰστηρῐ́ῳ tôi thusiastēríōi	τοῖν θῠσῐᾰστηρῐ́οιν toîn thusiastēríoin	τοῖς θῠσῐᾰστηρῐ́οις toîs thusiastēríois
Accusative	τὸ θῠσῐᾰστήρῐον tò thusiastḗrion	τὼ θῠσῐᾰστηρῐ́ω tṑ thusiastēríō	τᾰ̀ θῠσῐᾰστήρῐᾰ tà thusiastḗria
Vocative	θῠσῐᾰστήρῐον thusiastḗrion	θῠσῐᾰστηρῐ́ω thusiastēríō	θῠσῐᾰστήρῐᾰ thusiastḗria
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