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char´jer (the American Standard Revised Version “platterâ€): A word which meant in the older English speech a flat dish or platter. It is used in the Bible as the translation (1) of קערה, kÌ£e‛aÌ„raÌ„h, which in the King James Version (the Revised Version (British and American) “platterâ€) and repeatedly in that chapter denotes one of the gifts made by the several princes at the dedication of the tabernacle; (2) of ×גרטל, 'ăghartÌ£aÌ„l, a word of uncertain derivation used in (the King James Version) twice to designate certain temple vessels which might better be called “libation bowlsâ€; (3) of πιÌναξ, pıÌnax, used , ; , (EV) for the dish in which the head of John the Baptist was presented.