אַזְכָּרָה
memorial offering
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
6 distinct verses where H234 appears in the Construct state, across 2 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Leviticus 5 verses
- Leviticus 2:2 אַזְכָּרָתָ/הּ֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs He shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests; and he shall take his handful of its fine flour, and of its oil, with all its frankincense; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 2:9 אַזְכָּ֣רָתָ֔/הּ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs The priest shall take from the meal offering its memorial, and shall burn it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 2:16 אַזְכָּרָתָ֗/הּ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs The priest shall burn as its memorial, part of its bruised grain, and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense: it is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 5:12 אַזְכָּרָתָ/ה֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as the memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. It is a sin offering.
- Leviticus 6:15 אַזְכָּרָתָ֖/הּ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs He shall take from there his handful of the fine flour of the meal offering, and of its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the meal offering, and shall burn it on the altar for a sweet savor, as its memorial, to Yahweh.
Numbers 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, אזכרה (ʼazkârâh) means “memorial offering.” The word gravitates to Leviticus (86%), then Numbers. It appears 7 verses across 2 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. Scripture first uses it in Leviticus 2:2. Older and newer Bibles part ways — “memorial” in the King James Version, “memorial portion” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H234 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,835
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,835 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 7 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 7 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Memorial 7×
- American Standard Version: Memorial 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Memorial portion 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Memorial portion 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H234 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H234 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H234 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H234 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- memorial-offering, the portion of the meal (food) offering which is burned
Word origin
אַזְכָּרָה n.f. memorial-offering
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from זכר (zâkar) (H2142) — to remember.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אַזְכָּרָה
- (b. h.; = הַזְכָּרָה,
- 1. remembrance, mention (of Div. Name), recitation (of prayer); reference. Y. Ber. V, 9ᵇ א׳ שהיא מריוח the reference to rain (in the second section of the eighteen benedictions) which is an expression of satisfaction (plenty), opp. שאלה, the prayer for rain (in the ninth benediction) which is an expression of anxiety.—Y. Meg. III, 74ᵇ top שתהא אַזְכָּרָתָן קודם וכ׳ that the recitation (of the events commemorated on Purim) precede the celebration thereof.
- 2. (v. אַדְכָּרָה) the Divine Name, Tetragrammaton. Num. R. s. 2, beg. the students מראים את הא׳ וכ׳ point out the Div. Name with their fingers; Cant. R. to II, 4 מדלג על הא׳ skips the Div. Name in recitation of lessons.—Pl. אַזְכָּרוֹת. Yoma 8ᵃ שיש בהן א׳ הרבה in which the Div. N. frequently occurs. Y. Ber. III, 6ᶜ.—Y. Sabb. XVI, 15ᶜ bot.; Bab. ibid. 116ᵃ קודר אזכרותֵיהֶן you must cut out the Div. N. occurring in them (the heretic writings). Y. Taan. II, 65ᶜ top י"ח א׳ וכ׳ eighteen times that the Tetragrammaton appears in the Psalm Habu (XXIX). Num. R. s. 2, beg.; a. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms H234 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַזְכָּ֣רָתָ֔/הּ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 2:9 | 2 |
| אַזְכָּרָתָ/ה֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 5:12 | 1 |
| אַזְכָּרָתָ/הּ֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 2:2 | 1 |
| אַזְכָּרָתָ֖/הּ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 6:15 | 1 |
| אַזְכָּרָתָ֗/הּ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 2:16 | 1 |
| לְ/אַזְכָּרָ֔ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 24:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H234, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 7 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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