Platter plat'-er:
(1) qe`arah, "a deep dish" (Numbers 7:13, Numbers 7:84, Numbers 7:85). In the King James Version and the English Revised Version "charger," the American Standard Revised Version "platter" (compare Exodus 25:29, Exodus 37:16); the Septuagint trublion, and in the New Testament rendered "dish" (Matthew 26:23, Mark 14:20). In Ezra 1:9, the American Standard Revised Version agharTal, rendered "platter," the King James Version and the English Revised Version "chargers"; probably a deep dish or basin used in sacrificial slaughter.
(2) paropsis, originally a side dish, for relishes, entrees, but of dishes for food, in general, especially meats, fish, etc., used with poterion, "cup" or "drinking vessel" (Matthew 23:25); also pinax, originally a large wooden dish or plate (Luke 11:39); rendered "charger" in Matthew 14:8, Matthew 14:11 the King James Version, and Mark 6:25, Mark 6:28 the King James Version and the English Revised Version.
Edward Bagby Pollard