Corban

• Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  • Corban An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited.
  • Corban (Jewish Antiq) An offering of any kind, devoted to God and therefore not to be appropriated to any other use; esp., an offering in fulfillment of a vow.
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• • n corban In Judaism, an offering of any sort to God, particularly in fulfilment of a VOW. To the rules laid down in Lev. xxvii. and Num. xxx. concerning vows, the rabbins added the rule that a man might interdict himself by vow not only from using for himself any particular object, for example food, but also from giving or receiving it. The thing thus interdicted was considered as corban. A person might thus release himself from any inconvenient obligation under plea of corban —a practice which Christ reprehended, as annulling the spirit of the law.
  • n corban Same as corbana.
  • n corban In the Coptic liturgy, the eucharistic oblate or host, divisible into nine parts, the central one of which is called the spoudicon. See despoticon and pearl.
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• • n Corban kor′ban anything devoted to God in fulfilment of a vow.
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