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A small vessel made of metal, to contain burning coals from the altar, on which incense was sprinkled by the priest, that a cloud of incense might arise therefrom. Lev. 10: 1; Lev. 16: 12. Solomon
made some of gold. 1 Kings 7: 50; 2 Chr. 4: 22; Heb. 9: 4; Rev. 8: 3,
5. The same word is used when the company of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram were put to the test; the censers were probably hastily constructed ones, for 250 were needed. Aaron ran with a censer and incense between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed. Num. 16: 6-48. The same Hebrew word is translated 'fire-pan' in Ex. 27: 3; Ex. 38: 3; 2 Kings 25: 15; Jer. 52: 19.