Quick Definition
βωμός, οῦ, ὁ n.m. an altar
Strong's Definition
from the base of 939; properly, a stand, i.e. (specially) an altar
KJV Usage: altar
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, m. | -οῦ | βεβαιόω
6.115 · Artifacts · Furniture
altar an altar with a base or pedestal; for offering sacrifices to a god In this only reference in the NT in which βωμός occurs, the altar to the Unknown God may be spoken of as ‘a place for offerings to a god whom people do not know’ or ‘... god whose name is not known.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
βωμός, -οὔ, 6, (see βουνός), an elevated place; very freq. in Grk. writ. fr. Hom. down, a raised place on which to offer sacrifice, an altar: Acts xvii. 23. (Often in Sept. for M317.) * TaB Bada
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
βωμός bōmos 1x
pr. a slightly-elevated spot, base, pedestal; hence, an altar, Acts 17:23*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
βωμός, -οῦ, ὁ
(< βαίνω), [in LXX (Hex.) for מִזְבֵּחַ, in Proph., chiefly for בָּמָה ;]
any raised place, a platform.
an altar: Ac 17:23 (cf. θυσιαστήριον and v. DB, i, 75).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
βωμός, originally ‘* platform,” like its kin βῆμα, has been specialized as a ἱερὸς βωμός, “altar,” from Homer down. It is , Bapos common in the papyri and inscriptions. One or two instances must suffice. Thus in the curious P Petr IT. p, [28], Fr. 413 (B.C. 241) it appears that the inhabitants of certain houses in Crocodilopolis built up the doors of their houses and set altars against them to avoid having Crown officials billeted on them—doaitas δὲ καὶ ἐνωικοδομηκότας τὰς θύρας τῶν οἰκιῶν βωμοὺς προσωικοδομήκασιν, τοῦτο δὲ πεποιήκασιν πρὸς τὸ μὴ ἐπισταθμεύεσθαι. Cf. also the phrase ἔξω ἱεροῦ βωμοῦ with reference to being outside the ** protection” of a temple and altar, e.g. P Tebt I. 2107 (B.c.'107) (= Chrest. I. 327), P Oxy IV. 785 (c. A.D. 1), zd. X. 12588 (A.D. 45). In P Grenf II. 111?! (v/vi A.D.) βωμὸς χαλκί(οῦς) ἃ is mentioned in an inventory of church property. For the φόρος βωμῶν paid by the priests see Wilcken σάν. i. p- 352 f. Reference may be made to the inscr. Ζεὺς Βωμός, found on or near an altar erected before a Greek temple in Central Syria. According to L. R. Farell ( Year’s Work in Classical Studies, 1909, p. 61) this ‘‘frank identification of the god with the altar” probably arises from Syrian rather than Hellenic thought. But there was Hellenic thought also: see the account of the whole matter in A. B. Cook, Zezs, i. Ρ. 519 f.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
βωμός (bōmos) — altar. βωμός, ὁ, (βαίνω) raised platform, stand, for chariots, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; base of a statue, [Refs 8th c.BC+]
2. mostly, altar with a base, ἱερὸς β. [Refs 8th c.BC+]; of suppliants, ποτὶ βωμὸν ἵζεσθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+]; βωμοῖσι προσῆσθαι, προσπεσόντα βωμῷ καθῆσθαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: also in Prose, β. ἱδρύσασθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]
3. later, tomb, cairn, [Refs]
4. title of poems by Dosiades and Besantinus, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
5. altar-shaped cake, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
6. Ζεὺς Βωμός, probably a Syrian god, [Refs]
7. central fire in the system of Philolaus, accusative to [Refs]
8. in plural, ={ἔμβολοι}, [Refs 5th c.AD+]