Church vs Corban - What's the difference?
church | corban |
(countable) A Christian house of worship; a building where religious services take place.
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Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity.
* Acts 20:28, New International Version:
(countable) A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general.
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(countable) A particular denomination of Christianity.
(uncountable, countable, as bare noun) Christian worship held at a church; service.
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A (non-Christian) religion; a religious group.
* 2007 , Scott A. Merriman, Religion and the Law in America ,
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*:Thenne after this lady was delyuerd and chirched / there came a knyghte vnto her / his name was sire Bromel la pleche / the whiche was a grete lord and he hadde loued that lady longe / and he euermore desyred her to wedde her / and soo by no meane she coude putte hym of
*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, page 36:
*:Nor did it [the Church] accept that the woman should stay indoors until she had been churched .
(label) To educate someone religiously, as in in a church.
An offering to God, especially in fulfilment of a vow.
* 1901 , The Bible, American Standard Version,
An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited.
As nouns the difference between church and corban
is that church is a Christian house of worship; a building where religious services take place while corban is an offering to God, especially in fulfilment of a vow.As a verb church
is to conduct a religious service for (a woman) after childbirth.As a proper noun Church
is {{surname}.church
English
Alternative forms
* churche (obsolete)Noun
- There is a lovely little church in the valley.
- This building used to be a church before being converted into a library.
- These worshippers make up the Church of Christ.
- Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.
- The Church''' of England separated from the Roman Catholic '''Church in 1534.
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- Among these, the church must investigate fundemental questions,
- She goes to a Wiccan church down the road.
Usage notes
* Several senses of church are routinely used in prepositional phrases as a bare noun, without a determiner or article. This is like (home) and unlike (house).Synonyms
* (building) chapel (small church), kirk (Scotland) * (group of worshipers) congregationHypernyms
* (religious group) religionCoordinate terms
* mosque, synagogue, temple, gurdwara, hof, fire temple, circle, mandir, jinja, House of Worship, monasteryDerived terms
(church) * Anglican Church * Byzantine Church * broad church * Catholic Church * church affiliation * church bell * church crawler * Church Latin * churchgoer * church-going * church hat * church hop * Churchianity * church key * churchless * churchlike * churchly * churchman * church mode * churchmouse * church music * Church of England * Church of Rome * Church of Scotland * churchperson * church planter/churchplanter * church roll * church school * church service * Church Slavonic * church state * church triumphant * churchward * churchwoman * churchy * churchyard * church year * collegiate church * Congregational church * established church * Eastern Church * Eastern Orthodox Church * free church * Greek Church * Greek Catholic Church * Greek Orthodox Church * High Church * Latin Church * LDS church * Low Church * Lutheran Church * Maronite Church * mega-church/megachurch * New Church * Orthodox Church * Orthodox Catholic Church * Oriental Church * Oriental Orthodox Churches * parish church * particular Church * Roman Catholic Church * union church * Western ChurchVerb
(es)Derived terms
* churching of womenSee also
* (selected ecclesiastical terms) * abbe * abbey * basilica * cathedral * ecclesiastical * Eucharist * house of worship * Kingdom Hall (qualifier, Jehovah's Witness) * liturgy * mass * mission * mosque (Muslim) * pastor * priory * rector * religious * religion * sermon * synagogue (Jewish) * temple (non-Christian) * vicar * worship serviceStatistics
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Alternative forms
* korbanNoun
(en noun)7:11
- but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban , that is to say, Given [to God];