ἐσχάρα
hearth, fire-pan
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐσχάρα appears in the Greek Septuagint — 13 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 27:4 ἐσχάρα And you shall make for it a brazen grate with network; and you shall make for the grate four brazen rings under the four sides.
- Exodus 27:4 ἐσχάρα And you shall make for it a brazen grate with network; and you shall make for the grate four brazen rings under the four sides.
- Exodus 27:5 ἐσχάρα And you shall put them below under the grate of the altar, and the grate shall extend to the middle of the altar.
- Exodus 27:5 ἐσχάρα And you shall put them below under the grate of the altar, and the grate shall extend to the middle of the altar.
- Exodus 30:3 ἐσχάρα And you shall gild its grate with pure gold, and its sides round about, and its horns; and you shall make for it a wreathen border of gold roundabout.
- Leviticus 2:7 ἐσχάρα And if your gift be a sacrifice from the hearth, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.
- Leviticus 7:9 ἐσχάρα And whatever flesh shall have touched any unclean thing, it shall not be eaten, it shall be consumed with fire; every one that is clean shall eat the flesh.
- 2 Chronicles 4:11 ἐσχάρα And Chiram made the flesh hooks, and the fire-pans, and the grate of the altar, and all its instruments: and Chiram finished doing all the work which he wrought for king Solomon in the house of God:
- Job 41:11 ἐσχάρα Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire of coals.
- Proverbs 26:21 ἐσχάρα A hearth for coals, and wood for fire; and railing man for the tumult of strife.
- Jeremiah 43:22 ἐσχάρα Now the king was sitting in the winter house: and there was a fire on the hearth before him.
- Jeremiah 43:23 ἐσχάρα And it came to pass when Judin had read three or four leaves, he cut them off with a penknife, and cast them into the fire that was on the hearth, until the whole roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
- Jeremiah 43:23 ἐσχάρα And it came to pass when Judin had read three or four leaves, he cut them off with a penknife, and cast them into the fire that was on the hearth, until the whole roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
About this word
About this word
ἐσχάρα (eschára), “hearth, fire-pan,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 13 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →