Reference: Charger
Easton
a bowl or deep dish. The silver vessels given by the heads of the tribes for the services of the tabernacle are so named (Nu 7:13, etc.). The "charger" in which the Baptist's head was presented was a platter or flat wooden trencher (Mt 14:8,11; Mr 6:25,28). The chargers of gold and silver of Ezr 1:9 were probably basins for receiving the blood of sacrifices.
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Fausets
("what bore any weight".) A hollow plate for presenting offerings of fine flour and oil (Nu 7:79). Among the vessels of the temple taken by Nebuchadnezzar and restored by Cyrus, and brought back by Sheshbazzar (Ezr 1:9). In such a "charger" John's head was presented to the cruel Herodias (Mt 14:8).
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Hastings
An obsolete word for a large flat dish on which meat was served. The Amer. RV everywhere substitutes 'platter,' e.g. Nu 7:13 ff., Mt 14:8 and parallels.
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Morish
Dish. Nu 7:13-85; Mt 14:8,11; Mr 6:25,28. In Ezr 1:9 it is bason or bowl. In the N.T. it is ????? , probably a wooden trencher.
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Smith
Charger,
a shallow vessel for receiving water or blood, also for presenting offerings of fine flour with oil.
The daughter of Herodias brought the head of St. John the Baptist in a charger,
probably a trencher or platter. [BASIN]
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