korban
- a variation of corban.
Example Sentences
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For example: torah, law, has its counterpart in the Assyrian tertu; the biblical kipper, atonement, is the Assyrian kuppuru; korban, gift or offering, is the Assyrian kurbannu.
From The Christian View of the Old Testament by Eiselen, Frederick Carl
The temples and their ministers were supported partly by endowments, partly by voluntary gifts, sometimes called kurbanni, the Hebrew korban, partly by obligatory contributions, the most important of which was the esrâ or "tithe."
From Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
