Corban vs Forban - What's the difference?
corban | forban |
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.
(label) To exile; banish.
* 2013 , Daniel Lord Smail, The Consumption of Justice :
As a noun corban
is an offering to god, especially in fulfilment of a vow.As a verb forban is
(label) to exile; banish.corban
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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];
Usage notes
* In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word is usually translated oblation, as in Numbers xviii. 9, xxxi. 50. * The traditionists laid down that a man might interdict himself by vow, not only from using for himself, but from giving to another, or receiving from him, some particular object, whether of food or any other kind. A person might thus exempt himself from assisting parents in distress, under plea of corban. English terms derived from the Bible ----forban
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Verb
- Kenneth Meredith has noted that the coutumiers of northern France "usually called for the confiscation of the property of both executed criminals and persons who had been forbanned ."
