altar
miz.be.ach denotes a constructed worship site where offerings are presented, and which can be built, repaired, approached, or torn down.
The term consistently identifies a physical worship structure: it is built for the LORD, used for burnt offerings, peace offerings, incense, and blood rites, and may also be approached, repaired, overthrown, or destroyed. The same noun is used for structures associated with the LORD and for those associated with Baal or other high places.
Senses in use
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Worship structure for offerings and ritual acts · dominant
The singular noun names the structure David built and upon which he presented burnt offerings and peace offerings in 1 Chronicles 21:26; in 2 Chronicles 29:22 the APB renders blood being sprinkled "on the altar." It also identifies structures that are built or repaired, as in 1 Kings 18:30 and 1 Kings 18:32, and plural forms designate structures that were overthrown or destroyed in 1 Kings 19:10 and 2 Chronicles 31:1. The supplied verses apply the noun both to a structure of the LORD and to structures connected with Baal or high places.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB regularly presents the noun as "altar" or "altars," including expressions such as "altar of burnt offering" and "horns of the altar." Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these renderings confirm the verse context without establishing finer distinctions.