CORBAN Definition & Meaning

corban

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[ kawr-buhn; Sephardic Hebrew kawr-bahn; Ashkenazic Hebrew kawr-buhn ]

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noun

a sacrifice or offering made to God, especially among the ancient Hebrews in fulfillment of a vow.

corban

/ kɔrˈban; ˈkɔːbən /

noun

Old Testament a gift to God
New Testament Judaism the Temple treasury or a consecration or gift to it (Matthew 27:6; Mark 7:11)

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of corban¹

1350–1400; Middle English < Hebrew ��ǰ�� literally, a drawing near

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Origin of corban¹

C14: from Late Latin, from Greek korban, from Hebrew ��ǰ�� offering, literally: a drawing near

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In October of that year, the federal court allowed three Christian post-secondary schools represented by lawyers at the Alliance Defending Freedom — Corban University, William Jessup University and Phoenix Seminary — to intervene in the lawsuit.

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By Corban Addison Knopf: 464 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.

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A truly injurious nuisance is at the heart of novelist Corban Addison’s first nonfiction endeavor, “Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial.”

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“Wastelands,” by Corban Addison, tells the extraordinary story of how some neighbors of hog operations in North Carolina battled a meatpacking company polluting their neighborhoods.

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Corban Addison hasn’t written a polemic about hog factories, like my paragraph above.

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