κορβᾶν
Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιον ἡ ὑγίεια καὶ ἀπραξίας, ἅ γε δὴ μέγιστα κακῶν ταῖς νόσοις πρόσεστι, καὶ οὐδὲν διαφέρει τοῦ τὰ ὄμματα τῷ μὴ διαβλέπειν καὶ τὴν φωνὴν τῷ μὴ φθέγγεσθαι φυλάττοντος ὁ τὴν ὑγίειαν ἀχρηστίᾳ καὶ ἡσυχίᾳ σῴζειν οἰόμενος → For health is not to be purchased by idleness and inactivity, which are the greatest evils attendant on sickness, and the man who thinks to conserve his health by uselessness and ease does not differ from him who guards his eyes by not seeing, and his voice by not speaking
English (LSJ)
(indecl.), Hebr.
A qorbān, gift or votive offering for the service of God, Ev.Marc.7.11, J.AJ4.4.4:—hence κορβανᾶς, ὁ, the treasury of the temple at Jerusalem, Ev.Matt.27.6, J.BJ2.9.4 (v.l. κορβωνᾶς).
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
κορβᾶν: (ἄκλιτ.), Ἑβραϊκὴ λέξις, δῶρον ἢ ἀφιέρωμα ἢ προσφορὰ πρὸς λατρείαν τοῦ Θεοῦ, Εὐαγγ. κ. Μάρκ. ζ΄, 11· ― ἐντεῦθεν κορβανᾶς, ὁ, τὸ ταμεῖον τοῦ ναοῦ ἐν Ἱερουσαλήμ, Εὐαγγ. κ. Ματθ. κζ΄, 6, Ἰωσήπ. Ἰουδ. Πόλ. 2. 9, 4.
French (Bailly abrégé)
(ὁ) :
c. κορβανᾶς.
English (Strong)
and korbanas of Hebrew and Chaldee origin respectively (קָרְבָן); a votive offering and the offering; a consecrated present (to the Temple fund); by extension (the latter term) the Treasury itself, i.e. the room where the contribution boxes stood: Corban, treasury.
English (Thayer)
(κορβᾶν WH; but see Tdf. Proleg., p. 102), indeclinable, and κορβανᾶς, accusative κορβᾶν (Buttmann, 20 (18)), ὁ (Hebrew קָרְבָּן i. e. an offering, the Sept. everywhere δῶρον, a term which comprehends all kinds of sacrifices, the bloody as well as the bloodless);
1. κορβᾶν, a gift offered (or to be offered) to God: Josephus, Antiquities 4,4, 4, of the Nazarites, οἱ κορβᾶν αὑτούς ὀνομασαντες τῷ Θεῷ, δῶρον δέ τοῦτο σημαίνει κατά Ἑλλήνων γλῶτταν; cf. contracted Apion. 1,22, 4; (BB. DD. under the word, Corban; Ginsburg in the Bible Educator, 1:155)).
2. κορβανᾶς, κορβανα (see Buttmann, as above), the sacred treasury: L marginal reading Tr marginal reading κορβᾶν) (τόν ἱερόν θησαυρόν, καλεῖται δέ κορβανᾶς, Josephus, b. j. 2,9, 4).
