מִנְחָה
offering
also: gift, tribute, present, oblation fuller range ↓
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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
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
26 verses where H4503 appears in the Absolute state in the Book of Leviticus. 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
- Leviticus 2:1 מִנְחָה֙ n c fs "'When anyone offers an offering of a meal offering to Yahweh, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it.
- Leviticus 2:3 הַ/מִּנְחָ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron's and his sons'. It is a most holy thing of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.
- Leviticus 2:4 מִנְחָ֖ה n c fs "'When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
- Leviticus 2:5 מִנְחָ֥ה n c fs If your offering is a meal offering of the baking pan, it shall be of unleavened fine flour, mixed with oil.
- Leviticus 2:6 מִנְחָ֖ה n c fs You shall cut it in pieces, and pour oil on it. It is a meal offering.
- Leviticus 2:8 הַ/מִּנְחָ֗ה ptcl def.art + n c fs You shall bring the meal offering that is made of these things to Yahweh: and it shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar.
- Leviticus 2:9 הַ/מִּנְחָה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs 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 2:10 הַ/מִּנְחָ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron's and his sons'. It is a thing most holy of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.
- Leviticus 2:11 הַ/מִּנְחָ֗ה ptcl def.art + n c fs "'No meal offering, which you shall offer to Yahweh, shall be made with yeast; for you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 2:15 מִנְחָ֖ה n c fs You shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense on it: it is a meal offering.
- Leviticus 5:13 כַּ/מִּנְחָֽה prep det + n c fs The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned in any of these things, and he will be forgiven; and the rest shall be the priest's, as the meal offering.'"
- Leviticus 6:14 הַ/מִּנְחָ֑ה ptcl def.art + n c fs "'This is the law of the meal offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before Yahweh, before the altar.
- Leviticus 6:15 הַ/מִּנְחָה֙ הַ/מִּנְחָ֑ה ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs 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.
- Leviticus 6:20 מִנְחָ֖ה n c fs "This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer to Yahweh in the day when he is anointed: the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening.
- Leviticus 7:9 מִנְחָ֗ה n c fs Every meal offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is dressed in the frying pan, and on the baking pan, shall be the priest's who offers it.
- Leviticus 7:10 מִנְחָ֥ה n c fs Every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aaron, one as well as another.
- Leviticus 7:37 לַ/מִּנְחָ֔ה prep det + n c fs This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meal offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecration, and of the sacrifice of peace offerings;
- Leviticus 9:4 וּ/מִנְחָ֖ה conj + n c fs and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before Yahweh; and a meal offering mixed with oil: for today Yahweh appears to you.'"
- Leviticus 9:17 הַ/מִּנְחָה֒ ptcl def.art + n c fs He presented the meal offering, and filled his hand from there, and burned it upon the altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning.
- Leviticus 10:12 הַ/מִּנְחָ֗ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, "Take the meal offering that remains of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and eat it without yeast beside the altar; for it is most holy;
- Leviticus 14:10 מִנְחָה֙ n c fs "On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
- Leviticus 14:20 הַ/מִּנְחָ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs and the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meal offering on the altar. The priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
- Leviticus 14:21 לְ/מִנְחָ֖ה prep + n c fs "If he is poor, and can't afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil;
- Leviticus 14:31 הַ/מִּנְחָ֑ה ptcl def.art + n c fs even such as he is able to afford, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering. The priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before Yahweh."
- Leviticus 23:16 מִנְחָ֥ה n c fs even to the next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 23:37 וּ/מִנְחָ֛ה conj + n c fs "'These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, and a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day;
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, מנחה (minchâh) means “offering.” Its English rendering has broadened — “meat offering” classically, “grain offering” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 194 verses in 24 books, it ranks among the common words of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in Numbers (29% of all occurrences). Beyond its headline sense, its full sense range takes in “gift”, “tribute”, and “present”. Dig into 194-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4503 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 →
- 194
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 194 distinct verses.
- 24 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 24 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #229
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 229 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 194 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
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 194 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 105 verses · 54%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 65 verses · 34%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 24 verses · 12%
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: Meat offering 109×, Offering 26×, Present 21×
- American Standard Version: Meal-offering 92×, Offering 16×, Tribute 16×
- Berean Standard Bible: Grain offering 78×, Offering 20×, Grain offerings 19×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Grain offering 116×, Offering 21×, Gift 16×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4503 across 211 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 17 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4503 across 201 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 32 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4503 across 201 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 16 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 10 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4503 across 222 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 21 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
11 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 11 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. gift, present Gn 32:14, 19, 21, 22 (E), 33:10; 43:11, 15, 25, 26 (J), Ju 6:18 1 S 10:27 1 K 10:25=2 Ch 9:24 2 K 8:8, 9; 20:12=Is 39:1, ψ 45:13 2 Ch 32:23. e.g. Genesis 32:14
- 2. tribute Ju 3:15, 17, 18(×2) 2 S 8:2, 6=Ch 18:2, 6, 1 K 5:1 2 K 17:3, 4 2 Ch 17:5, 11; 26:8 Ho 10:6 ψ 72:10. e.g. Judges 3:15
- 3. offering made to God, of any kind, whether grain or animals Gn 4:3, 4, 5 Nu 16:15 (J), 1 S 2:17, 29; 26:19 Is 1:13 ψ 96:8 Zp 3:10; + (prob.) (לַ)עֲלוֹת הַמִּנְחָה 1 K 18:29, 36 2 K 3:20 (Ephr.; usually regarded as= מִנְחַת עֶרֶב, but that much later usage). This gen. meaning poss. also in foll.: זבח ומנחה 1 S 2:29 (see v 29 b), 3:14 Is 19:21; עלה ומנחה Je 14:12; ‖ עולה ψ 20:4; ‖ שֶׁלֶם Am 5:22 (עֹלוֹת gloss, to explain אָרִיחַ); or these may shew early stage of discrimination. e.g. Genesis 4:3
- 4. grain offering (whether raw, roasted, ground to flour, or prepared as bread or cakes, see below. AV meat offering, misleading meal-offering. GFM Judges 322 renders cereal oblation);—יָבִיאוּ אֶת־הַמִּנְחָה בִּכְלִי טָהוֹר Is 66:20 they bring the grain offering in clean vessels (restored Jews are brought as such an offering), cf. מנחה טהורה Mal 1:11; brought in hands Je 41:5 (late addit. Co); received from hands Mal 1:10; חִטִּים למנחה 1 Ch 21:23 wheat for grain offering; סֹלֶת 1 Ch 23:29, mixed with oil Ez 46:14, baked v 20; disting. from other offerings 1 K 8:64(×2)=2 Ch 7:7, 2 K 16:13, 15(×3) Is 43:23; 57:6; 66:3 Je 17:26; 33:18; 41:5, Ez 42:13; 44:29; 45:15, 17(×2), 25 Am 5:22, 25 Dn 9:27 ψ 40:7; used alone Ne 13:5, 9 Ez 45:24; 46:5(×2), 7, 11, 14(×2), 15 Mal 1:13; 2:12, 13; 3:3, 4 Ju 13:19, 23 (R, GFM Judges 322); מִנְחַת (הָ)עֶרֶב evening grain offering 2 K 16:15 Ezr 9:4, 5 Dn 9:21 ψ 141:2; מִנְחַת הַתָּמִיד continual grain off. Ne 10:34, cf. Lv 6:13 Nu 4:16 (all cases under 4 exilic or post-exilic). e.g. Isaiah 66:20
- 5. grain-offering, always with this meaning in P, in classifications Ex 30:9; 40:29 Lv 7:37; 23:37 Nu 18:9; 29:39 Jos 22:23, 29:— e.g. Exodus 30:9
- a. אָבִיב grain in the ear parched with fire, with oil and frankincense Lv 2:14, 15. e.g. Leviticus 2:14
- b. סֹלֶת fine flour with oil and frankincense Lv 2:1; 6:7, 8; elsewhere בְּלוּלָה בַּשֶּׁמֶן mingled with oil Lv 14:10, 21; 23:13 Nu 7:13 + 10 times 8:8; 15:4, 6, 9 Nu 28:5 + 6 times; 29:3, 9, 14, except sin offering of very poor where offered without oil and frankincense Lv 5:11–13. e.g. Leviticus 2:1
- c. סֹלֶת baked in an oven as חַלּוֹת perforated cakes, or רְקִיקִים flat cakes Lv 2:4; 7:9 Nu 6:15, על הַמַּחֲבַת on a flat pan Lv 2:5; 6:14; 7:9, or מַרְחֶשֶׁת frying pan Lv 2:7; 7:9. All these always unleavned (מַצּוֹת) and mixed with oil and salt Lv 2:11–13. e.g. Leviticus 2:4
- d. at Pentecost to consecrate new bread, מִנְחָה חֲדָשָׁה new grain offering of two loaves of leavened bread Lv 23:16, 17 Nu 28:26. e.g. Leviticus 23:16
- e. barley meal without oil or incense; מִנְחַת קְנָאֹת grain offering of jealousy, מ׳ זִכָּרוֹן Nu 5:15, 18, 25. Cf. phrases מִנְחַת הַבֹּקֶר morning oblation Ex 29:41 Nu 28:8; קָרְבַּן מ׳ Lv 2:1, 4, 13; מ׳ בִּכּוּרִים Lv 2:14; מ׳ פִּתִּים Lv 6:14. e.g. Numbers 5:15
- 6. vbs. of offering are הֵבִיא Gn 4:3 (J), Lv 2:2, 8 (P), Is 1:13; 66:20(×2) Je 17:26 Mal 1:13; הִקְרִיב Lv 2:1, 8, 11; 6:7 Nu 5:25; עשׂה Nu 6:17; 28:31 1 K 8:64=2 Ch 7:7, Ez 45:24; 46:7, 14, 15; הקטיר 2 K 16:13, 15 Je 33:18; העלה Is 57:6; 66:3 Je 14:12; הגישׁ Am 5:25 Mal 2:12; 3:3; הוביל Ho 10:6 Zp 3:10; נשׂא ψ 96:8, also (מ׳=tribute) 2 S 8:2, 6 and ‖; השׁיב 2 K 17:3 ψ 72:10. e.g. Genesis 4:3
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.f. gift, tribute, offering (NH id.; Ph. מנחת; 𝔗 מִנְחָתָא on Arabic v. supr.);—abs. מ׳ Gn 4:3 + 81 times; cstr. מִנְחַת Lv 2:7 + 22 times; sf. מִנְחָתִי Gn 33:10 + 3 times; + 41 times sfs. sg.; pl. sf. מִנְחֹתֶיךָ ψ 20:4; מִנְחֹתֵיכֶם Nu 29:39 Am 5:22;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root meaning to apportion, i.e. bestow
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.
מִנְחָה
- 1. [laid down,] offering, present.—Pl. מְנָחוֹת. Num. R. s. 13 שלשלמה הביאו האומות מ׳ וכ׳ as the nations brought gifts to Solomon &c.; a. e.—Esp. (in ritual) meal-offering. Men. I, 1 מִנְחַת חוטא the sinner’s meal-offering (Lev. V, 11). Ib. X, 6 (68ᵇ) מנחת בהמה the meal-offering connected with animal offering (e. g. Lev. VII, 13). Ib. XII, 3 הרי עלי מ׳ וכ׳ I vow a minḥah of barley; a. v. fr.—Pl. as ab. Ib. I, 1; a. fr.—M’naḥoth, name of a treatise of the Mishnah, Tosefta, and Talmud Babli of the Order of Kodashim. e.g. Leviticus 5:11
- 2. (cmp. preced. 2) [decline,] afternoon (corresp. to b. h. בֵּין הָעַרְבַּיִם); תְּפִלַּת המ׳ (or מִנְחָה) afternoon-prayer, Minḥah. Ber. IV, 1 (26ᵃ) תפלת המ׳ עד הערב the Minḥah may be read until sunset; ib. 26ᵇ תפלת המ׳ … שהרי תמיד של בין הערבים וכ׳ the Minḥah may be read &c., because the daily sacrifice of the afternoon could be offered until sunset. Ib. עד פלג המ׳ up to the middle of the afternoon. Ib. מ׳ גדולה (מ׳ קמא) the large (first) afternoon, i.e. the time from six and a half hours after sunrise to sunset (the day being divided into twelve hours); (מ׳ אחרונה) מ׳ קטנה the smaller (later) afternoon, i.e. from nine and a half hours to sunset. Ib. פלג מ׳ אחרונה the middle of the late (small) afternoon. Ib. top טעה ולא התפלל מ׳ if by mistake he failed to read the Minḥah; 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 89 distinct written forms H4503 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.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 29 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4503, 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.
Derived from this word
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 190 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 194 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 4:3
- Exodus 29:41
- Leviticus 2:1
- Numbers 4:16
- Joshua 22:23
- Judges 3:15
- 1 Samuel 2:17
- 2 Samuel 8:2
- 1 Kings 8:64
- 2 Kings 3:20
- 1 Chronicles 16:29
- 2 Chronicles 7:7
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
