חַמָּן
chaman · incense altar
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2553 · appears 8 times in the Bible
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chaman (חַמָּן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “incense altar”.
An altar or pillar for burning incense to false gods.
How to say it
cha·man
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- An altar or pillar for burning perfume to false gods.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Leviticus 26:30
And I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and put your corpses on the corpses of your idols, and my soul will loathe you.
- 2 Chronicles 14:5
He removed from all the cities of Judah the high places and the incense altars; and the kingdom was quiet before him.
- 2 Chronicles 34:4
They tore down before him the altars of the Baals, and the incense altars that were high above them he cut down; and the Asherahs, the carved images, and the molten images he broke and ground to dust, and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
- 2 Chronicles 34:7
he tore down the altars, and the Asherahs and the carved images he crushed to dust, and all the incense altars he cut down throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 17:8
And he will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and what his fingers have made he will not see, neither the Asherahs nor the incense altars.
- Isaiah 27:9
Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be expiated, and this is all the fruit of removing his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altar like stones of chalk crushed to pieces, Asherahs and incense altars will not rise.
- Ezekiel 6:4
And your altars will be desolate, and your incense altars will be broken, and I will cast down your slain before your idols.
- Ezekiel 6:6
In all your dwelling places the cities will be laid waste, and the high places will be desolate, so that your altars will be laid waste and be guilty, and your idols will be broken and cease, and your incense altars will be cut down, and your works wiped out.