censor

noun

«censor» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

In Jewish tradition

Here it is a firepan for incense, the same as "censer". Korah and his company are told to take censers to test who is chosen to serve.

Interpretation. Korah's challenge to Aaron's priesthood is settled by the incense test. The rebels' censers were afterwards hammered into a covering for the altar as a warning.

Meaning

A spelling variant of "censer", a pan for burning incense. Today "censor" means a person who removes things that are thought improper. tree →

Examples

This do: take you censors, Korah, and all his company; (Torah NUM.16.6, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

On Mova

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