noun · masculine
korban
Strong’sG2878
a gift, offering
stem korban-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
*† κορβάν (Rec., T, -βᾶν), indecl. (Heb. קׇרְבָּן),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2878 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkor-ban'
a votive offering and the offering; a consecrated present (to the Temple fund); by extension (the latter term) the Treasury itself, i.e. the room where the contribution boxes stood
Fromof Hebrew and Chaldee origin respectively ();
King JamesCorban, treasury.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(indeclinable), Hebrew qorbān, gift or votive offering for the service of God, NT+1st c.AD+:—hence κορβανᾶς, ὁ, the treasury of the temple at Jerusalem, NT+1st c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | korban1×Κορβᾶν | korban |
| object accusative | korban | korban |
| direct address vocative | korban | korban |
| of, belonging to genitive | korban | korban |
| to, for dative | korban | korban |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
korban“Corban”subjectnominative singular1×
Mark 7:11… anthrōpos to patro ē ta mētēra; Korban, hem atō Dōrem, hem ean ek …… would have received from me is Corban’ (that is, a gift devoted to …