noun · masculine

korban

GreekΚορβᾶν (korban)

Strong’sG2878

a gift, offering

stem korban-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

Corban1×

What it means

*† κορβάν (Rec., T, -βᾶν), indecl. (Heb. קׇרְבָּן),

an offering, a gift offered to God: Mk 7:11 (cf. κορβανᾶς).†

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.

Every form

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

korbanstem

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

korban“Corban”subjectnominative singular1×

Mark 7:11“Corban”vis de legavō; Ean legateia anthrōpos to patēro ē ta mētēra; Korban, hem atō Dōrem, hem ean ek mu ōfeliseia,But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is Corban’ (that is, a gift devoted to God ),