תְּרוּמָה
offering
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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.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
33 distinct verses where H8641 appears in the Absolute state, across 10 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.
Exodus 7 verses
- Exodus 25:2 תְּרוּמָ֑ה תְּרוּמָתִֽ/י n c fs n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs "Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.
- Exodus 25:3 הַ/תְּרוּמָ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, brass,
- Exodus 29:27 הַ/תְּרוּמָ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs You shall sanctify the breast of the wave-offering, and the thigh of the heave-offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:
- Exodus 29:28 תְרוּמָ֖ה וּ/תְרוּמָ֞ה תְּרוּמָתָ֖/ם n c fs conj + n c fs n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp and it shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel; for it is a heave-offering: and it shall be a heave-offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace-offerings, even their heave-offering to Yahweh.
- Exodus 30:13 תְּרוּמָ֖ה n c fs They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.
- Exodus 35:5 תְּרוּמָה֙ תְּרוּמַ֣ת n c fs n c fs cs 'Take from among you an offering to Yahweh. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, Yahweh's offering: gold, silver, brass,
- Exodus 36:3 הַ/תְּרוּמָה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs and they received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, with which to make it. They brought yet to him freewill-offerings every morning.
Leviticus 5 verses
- Leviticus 7:14 תְּרוּמָ֖ה n c fs Of it he shall offer one out of each offering for a heave offering to Yahweh. It shall be the priest's who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.
- Leviticus 7:32 תְרוּמָ֖ה n c fs The right thigh you shall give to the priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
- Leviticus 7:34 הַ/תְּרוּמָ֗ה ptcl def.art + n c fs For the waved breast and the heaved thigh I have taken from the children of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel.'"
- Leviticus 10:14 הַ/תְּרוּמָ֗ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The waved breast and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you: for they are given as your portion, and your sons' portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the children of Israel.
- Leviticus 10:15 הַ/תְּרוּמָ֞ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The heaved thigh and the waved breast they shall bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh: and it shall be yours, and your sons' with you, as a portion forever; as Yahweh has commanded."
Numbers 7 verses
- Numbers 5:9 תְּרוּמָ֞ה n c fs Every heave offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present to the priest, shall be his.
- Numbers 6:20 הַ/תְּרוּמָ֑ה ptcl def.art + n c fs and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. This is holy for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered. After that the Nazirite may drink wine.
- Numbers 15:19 תְרוּמָ֖ה n c fs then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a heave-offering to Yahweh.
- Numbers 15:20 תְרוּמָ֑ה כִּ/תְרוּמַ֣ת n c fs prep + n c fs cs Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a heave-offering: as the heave-offering of the threshing floor, so shall you heave it.
- Numbers 15:21 תְּרוּמָ֑ה n c fs Of the first of your dough you shall give to Yahweh a heave-offering throughout your generations.
- Numbers 18:24 תְּרוּמָ֔ה n c fs For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a heave-offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance: therefore I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
- Numbers 31:52 הַ/תְּרוּמָ֗ה ptcl def.art + n c fs All the gold of the heave-offering that they offered up to Yahweh, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.
2 Samuel 1 verse
2 Chronicles 2 verses
- 2 Chronicles 31:10 הַ/תְּרוּמָ֜ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, Since [the people] began to bring the offerings into the house of Yahweh, we have eaten and had enough, and have left plenty: for Yahweh has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.
- 2 Chronicles 31:12 הַ/תְּרוּמָ֧ה ptcl def.art + n c fs They brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: and over them Conaniah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was second.
Nehemiah 1 verse
Proverbs 1 verse
Isaiah 1 verse
Ezekiel 7 verses
- Ezekiel 45:1 תְרוּמָ֨ה n c fs Moreover, when you shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an offering to Yahweh, a holy portion of the land; the length shall be the length of twenty-five thousand [reeds], and the breadth shall be ten thousand: it shall be holy in all the border of it round about.
- Ezekiel 45:13 הַ/תְּרוּמָ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs This is the offering that you shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat; and you shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley;
- Ezekiel 45:16 הַ/תְּרוּמָ֣ה ptcl def.art + n c fs All the people of the land shall give to this offering for the prince in Israel.
- Ezekiel 48:8 הַ/תְּרוּמָ֣ה ptcl def.art + n c fs By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand [reeds] in breadth, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side to the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
- Ezekiel 48:9 הַ/תְּרוּמָ֕ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The offering that you shall offer to Yahweh shall be twenty-five thousand [reeds] in length, and ten thousand in breadth.
- Ezekiel 48:20 הַ/תְּרוּמָ֗ה תְּרוּמַ֣ת ptcl def.art + n c fs n c fs cs All the offering shall be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand: you shall offer the holy offering four-square, with the possession of the city.
- Ezekiel 48:21 לִ/תְרֽוּמַת תְּרוּמָה֮ תְּרוּמַ֣ת prep + n c fs cs n c fs n c fs cs The residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering toward the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the west border, answerable to the portions, it shall be for the prince: and the holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst of it.
Malachi 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.
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
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.
- #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 →
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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8641, 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
- מרום mârôwm H4791 height
- רום rûwm H7312 haughtiness
- רום rûwm H7313 to rise
- רום rôwm H7315 on high
- רמה râmâh H7413 high place
- רמות râmûwth H7419 height
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- ירימות Yᵉrîymôwth H3406 Jerimoth
- ירמות Yarmûwth H3412 Jarmuth
- ירמי Yᵉrêmay H3413 Jeremai
- ירמיה Yirmᵉyâh H3414 Jeremiah
- מרמות Mᵉrêmôwth H4822 Meremoth
- רומה Rûwmâh H7316 height
- רוממתי עזר Rôwmamtîy ʻEzer H7320 Romamti-ezer
- רם Râm H7410 Ram
- רמיה Ramyâh H7422 Ramiah
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 18 — not the complete family. 9 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 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.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Exodus 25:2
- Leviticus 7:14
- Numbers 5:9
- Deuteronomy 12:6
- 2 Samuel 1:21
- 2 Chronicles 31:10
- Ezra 8:25
- Proverbs 29:4
- Isaiah 40:20
- Ezekiel 20:40
- Malachi 3:8
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.
