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Corban
CORBAN (kor'ban; Gk. korban, an "offering").
A name common to any sacred gift; the term in general use to denote sacrifice,
its equivalent (Ex 28:38) being "holy gifts."
All things or persons consecrated (or vowed) for religious purposes became
corban and fell to the sanctuary.
The
Pharisees taught that "if a man says to his father or his mother, anything of mine you
might have been helped by is Corban [i.e., devoted]" (Mk 7:11), he thereby
consecrated all to God and was relieved from using it for his parents. This
Jesus declared to be contradictory of the command that taught children to honor
their parents.