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תְּרוּמָה

offering

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H8641 Strong's Hebrew
tᵉrûwmâh Transliteration
/ter-oo-maw'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 76 appearances

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תרומה — transliterated tᵉrûwmâh — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “offering.” Its English rendering has broadened — “heave offering” classically, “contribution” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 63 verses — moderately common. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Numbers. It is not a single-sense word — see its full sense range. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
gift
Modern gloss
offering
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's H8641 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 →

63
distinct verses
The word appears in 63 distinct verses.
12 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 12 of 39 Old Testament books.
Exodus 25:2
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Exodus 25:2.
Malachi 3:8
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Malachi 3:8.
#523
by frequency
Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 523 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 63 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 37 · 59%
  • Historical 9 · 14%
  • Wisdom 1 · 2%
  • Prophets 16 · 25%

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 63 distinct verses.

  • Torah (Pentateuch) 37 verses · 59%
  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 17 verses · 27%
  • Writings (Ketuvim) 9 verses · 14%

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: Heave offering 14×, Offering 13×, Oblation 11×
  • American Standard Version: Heave-offering 17×, Oblation 14×, Offering 7×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Offering 21×, Contribution 12×, Portion 8×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Contribution 25×, Contribution of 18×, Offering 6×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H8641 across 76 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Heave offering” 14×
  • “Offering” 13×
  • “Oblation” 11×
  • “Offerings” 8×
  • “Heave” 4×
  • “Heave offerings” 2×
  • “Shall be the offering” 2×

Plus 22 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 H8641 across 76 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Heave-offering” 17×
  • “Oblation” 14×
  • “Offering” 7×
  • “Heave-offerings” 4×
  • “'s heave-offering” 3×
  • “Oblations” 3×
  • “'s offering” 2×
  • “Every heave-offering” 2×
  • “The” 2×

Plus 22 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 H8641 across 73 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Offering” 21×
  • “Contribution” 12×
  • “Portion” 8×
  • “Contributions” 7×
  • “Offerings” 6×
  • “District” 3×

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 3 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H8641 across 78 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Contribution” 25×
  • “Contribution of” 18×
  • “Offering” 6×
  • “Land” 5×
  • “Offerings” 5×
  • “Contributions” 3×
  • “Is an offering” 2×
  • “Offerings of” 2×
  • “Reserved for” 2×

Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


12 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 12 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. earliest use: contrib. of products of soil for י׳, תְּרוּמַת יֶדְכֶם Dt 12:6, 11, cf. v 17; also Ez 20:40 Nu 15:19, 20(×2), 21. e.g. Deuteronomy 12:6
  • 2. contrib. for prince, in Ezekiel’s scheme: Ez 45:13, 16 e.g. Ezekiel 45:13
  • 3. tract of land to be set apart for temple, and for use of priests and Levites, in Ezek.’s scheme: Ez 45:1; 48:8, 9, 20a, 21b; called ת׳ הַקֹּדֶשׂ 45:6, 7(×2); 48:10, 18(×2), 20b, 21a, 21c; ת׳ הָאָרְץ קֹדֶשׁ קָֽדָשִׁים v 12. e.g. Ezekiel 45:1
  • 4. contrib. to י׳, set apart for priests, Ez 44:30(×2); Lv 22:12; Nu 5:9; 18:8, 11, 19; 2 Ch 31:10, 12, 14; specif.: e.g. Ezekiel 44:30
    • a. of cakes and cereals Lv 7:14; Ne 10:38, 40 (also for Levites), 12:44 (id.), 13:5; cf. וּשְׂדֵי תְרוּמוֹת 2 S 1:21, i.e. (si vera l.) fields yielding sacred imposts, but very dub.; 𝔊L ὄρη θανάτου, cf. We; JPPet JBL xii (1893), 54 proposes מָוֶת (הָרֵי) שׂ׳, ה׳ as gloss; HPS שְׂדוֹת הַמָּוֶת; > Sta וּשְׂדֵי עֲרֵמוֹת; v. also Dr. e.g. Leviticus 7:14
    • b. of animal sacrif., the thigh, שׁוֹק הַתּ׳ Ex 29:27, 28; Lv 7:34; 10:14, 15; Nu 6:20. e.g. Exodus 29:27
    • c. priests’ share of Levites’tithe, Nu 18:26, 27, 28(×2), 29. e.g. Numbers 18:26
    • d. of booty Nu 31:29, 41, 52. e.g. Numbers 31:29
    • e. tithe for Levites 18:24. e.g. Numbers 18:24
  • 5. materials for tabern., sacred garments, etc., Ex 25:2(×2), 3; 35:5(×2), 21, 24(×2); 36:3, 6; for temple Ezr 8:25. e.g. Exodus 25:2
  • 6. half-shekel for maintaining service of sanctuary Ex 30:13, 14, 15. e.g. Exodus 30:13
  • 7. late, contribution, in gen., אִישׁ תְּרוּמוֹת Pr 29:4 a man of contributions, i.e. demanding them, = man of exactions.—תּ׳ Is 40:20 of idol-image (si vera l.), so still Di-Kit; read perhaps תְּמוּנָה 𝔊 (ὁμοίωμα v 19) Du; other conj. in Che Hpt., v. also iii. [סָכַן].—Vbs. c. ת׳ are: הֵרִים Ez 45:1 + 14 times, הֵבִיא Dt 12:6 + 9 times, נָתַן Ez 44:30 + 9 times, לָקַח Ex 25:2(×2) + times, חִקְרִיב Lv 7:14; Nu 5:9.—Vid. Dr Dt 12:6;Hast. DB iii. 588. e.g. Proverbs 29:4

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. contribution, offering, for sacred uses (not certain before Dt.; chiefly Ez P and late) (proposes something lifted off, separated);—abs. ת׳ Ez 45:13 +; cstr. תְּרוּמַת Ex 30:14 +; sf. תְּרוּמָתִי 25:2, מַתְכֶם- Nu 18:27, מָתָם- Ex 29:28; pl. תְּרוּמוֹת Na 12:44 Pr 29:4, מֹת- 2 S 1:21 Nu 18:19; sf. תְּרוּמֹתָ֑י v 8, etc.;—

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from רום (rûwm) (H7311) — to rise.

Part of speech: Noun Feminine TWOT: 2133i


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.

תְּרוּמָה

  • 1. removal. Yoma 22ᵃ, a. fr. תְּרוּמַת הדשן the removal of the ashes from the altar (v. Lev. VI, 3). e.g. Leviticus 6:3
  • 2. [lifting,] heave-offering, dedicated object; contribution for the sanctuary; sacred treasure. Shek. III, 2; IV, 1 תרומת הלשכה, v. לִשְׁכָּה. Ib. הת׳ מה היו עושין בה what did they do with the treasure (of the half-Shekel contributions)? Y. ib. I, 45ᵈ bot. שלש תרומות … תרומת אדנים ות׳ שקלים ות׳ המשכן three kinds of contributions are spoken of in this section (Ex. XXV, 2 sq.): the contribution for the sockets (ib. XXXVIII, 26 sq.), the contribution of the head-tax (ib. XXX, 12 sq.), and the free-will contributions for the Tabernacle; a. fr.—Esp. T’rumah, the priest’s share of the crop, of dough &c. Ter. I, 1 אין תְּרוּמָתָן ת׳ what they set aside for the priest’s gift is not legal T’rumah. Ib. 3 תְּרוּמָתוֹ ת׳ what he set aside is T’rumah. Ib. IV, 3 שיעור ת׳ עין יפה וכ׳ the proportion of the priest’s gift is, in case of liberality, one-fortieth &c. Ib. 5 אחד מעשרה כת׳ מעשר one-tenth, which is as much as the gift of tithes; יתר ממנה יעשנה ת׳ מעשר וכ׳ if he took out more than that, let him make it a contribution of tithes (for another pile). Ib. VII, 5 שתי … של ת׳ וכ׳ two piles, one containing T’rumah, and the other secular fruit (חוּלִּין); a. v. fr.—Pl. תְּרוּמוֹת. Y. Shek. l. c. Taan. 7ᵇ ביטול ת׳ ומעשרות neglect of the laws concerning T’rumah and tithes; a. fr.—Trnsf. choice. Gitt. 67ᵃ מידותי ת׳ מת׳ וכ׳, v. מִדָּה.—T’rumoth name of a treatise, of the Order of Z’raʿim, of Mishnah, Tosefta, and Talmud Y’rushalmi. e.g. Exodus 25:2

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 47 distinct written forms H8641 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
תְּרוּמַ֣ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Deuteronomy 12:6 18
הַ/תְּרוּמָ֗ה Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Ezekiel 48:20 4
תְרוּמָ֖ה Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Exodus 29:28 3
הַ/תְּרוּמָ֔ה Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Exodus 25:3 2
הַ/תְּרוּמָ֣ה Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Ezekiel 45:16 2
תְרֽוּמַת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Ezekiel 45:7 2
תְּרוּמַ֥ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Exodus 30:14 2
תְּרוּמָ֑ה Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Exodus 25:2 2
תְּרוּמָ֔ה Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Isaiah 40:20 2
תְּרוּמָ֖ה Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Exodus 30:13 2
בִּ/תְרוּמַ֥ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Leviticus 22:12 1
הַ/תְּרוּמָ֑ה Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Numbers 6:20 1
הַ/תְּרוּמָ֕ה Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Ezekiel 48:9 1
הַ/תְּרוּמָ֖ה Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Ezekiel 45:13 1
הַ/תְּרוּמָ֜ה Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 2 Chronicles 31:10 1
הַ/תְּרוּמָ֞ה Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Leviticus 10:15 1
הַ/תְּרוּמָ֧ה Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 2 Chronicles 31:12 1
הַ/תְּרוּמָה֙ Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Exodus 36:3 1
וְ/הַ/תְּרוּמָֽה Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Malachi 3:8 1
וּ/תְרֻמַ֣ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Deuteronomy 12:11 1
וּ/תְרוּמַ֖ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Nehemiah 13:5 1
וּ/תְרוּמַ֥ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Deuteronomy 12:17 1
וּ/תְרוּמָ֞ה Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Exodus 29:28 1
וּ֠/תְרוּמֹתֵי/נוּ Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct Nehemiah 10:37 1
כִּ/תְרוּמַ֣ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Numbers 15:20 1
לִ/תְרֽוּמַת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Ezekiel 48:21 1
לִ/תְרוּמַ֣ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Exodus 36:6 1
לִ/תְרוּמַ֨ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Ezekiel 45:7 1
לַ/תְּרוּמוֹת֮ Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute Nehemiah 12:44 1
מִ/תְּרוּמַ֥ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Ezekiel 48:12 1
תְרוּמָ֑ה Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Numbers 15:20 1
תְרוּמָ֨ה Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Ezekiel 45:1 1
תְרוּמֹ֑ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 2 Samuel 1:21 1
תְּר֣וּמַת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Ezekiel 44:30 1
תְּר֤וּמַת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Exodus 35:24 1
תְּרוּמ֣וֹת Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute Proverbs 29:4 1
תְּרוּמ֣וֹתֵי/כֶ֔ם Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct Ezekiel 44:30 1
תְּרוּמַ֨ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Exodus 35:21 1
תְּרוּמַתְ/כֶ֑ם Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Numbers 18:27 1
תְּרוּמָ֞ה Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Numbers 5:9 1
תְּרוּמָה֙ Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Exodus 35:5 1
תְּרוּמָה֮ Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Ezekiel 48:21 1
תְּרוּמָתִֽ/י Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Exodus 25:2 1
תְּרוּמָתָ֖/ם Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Exodus 29:28 1
תְּרוּמֹ֣ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct Numbers 18:19 1
תְּרוּמֹֽתֵי/כֶ֗ם Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct Ezekiel 20:40 1
תְּרוּמֹתָ֑/י Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct Numbers 18:8 1

Same root — word family

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Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 59 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 63 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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