noun · masculine
korbanos
Strong’sG2878
the temple treasury
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.
*† κορβανᾶς, -ᾶ, ὁ
(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 | korbanos | korbanois |
| object accusative | korbanon1×κορβανᾶν | korbanoin |
| direct address vocative | korbanor | korbanoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | korbanou | korbanoiu |
| to, for dative | korbano | korbanoi |
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
korbano is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
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
korbanon“treasury”objectaccusative singular1×
Matthew 27:6… Ouk exestinatō balara auteim eis ton korbanon, epei timas haimeu atō;… unlawful to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.”