Offer

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: offering, offerings, offer, offered, offers. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “offer” or one of its forms.

• עֹלָה ôlâh277
• מִנְחָה minchâh159
• חַטָּאָה chaṭṭââh118
• שֶׁלֶם shelem80
• קׇרְבָּן qorbân71
• עָלָה âlâh66
• אִשָּׁה ishshâh65
• נֶסֶךְ nesek51
• זָבַח zâbach37
• אָשָׁם âshâm36
• תְּרוּמָה terûmâh34
• תְּנוּפָה tenûphâh27

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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

• עֹלָה ôlâhwhole burnt-offeringtranslated this way 277 times of its 279 uses · Strong’s H5930Noun  ·  Translated: burnt offering 170, burnt offerings 96

  Genesis 8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

  Exodus 10:25 But Moses replied, “You must also provide us with sacrifices and burnt offerings to present to the LORD our God.

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• מִנְחָה minchâhgift, tribute, offeringtranslated this way 159 times of its 201 uses · Strong’s H4503Noun  ·  Translated: grain offering 86, offering 21, grain offerings 21, tribute 16

  Genesis 4:3 So in the course of time, Cain brought some of the fruit of the soil as an offering to the LORD,

  Exodus 29:41 And offer the second lamb at twilight with the same grain offering and drink offering as in the morning, as a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.

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• חַטָּאָה chaṭṭââhoffence, penalty, occasiontranslated this way 118 times of its 292 uses · Strong’s H2403Noun  ·  Translated: sin offering 108, sin 83, sins 73, sin offerings 8

  Exodus 29:14 But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

  Leviticus 4:3 If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he must bring to the LORD a young bull without blemish as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.

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• שֶׁלֶם shelemsacrifice for alliance or friendship, 'peace-offering'translated this way 80 times of its 85 uses · Strong’s H8002Noun  ·  Translated: peace offering 41, peace offerings 38, peace 4, one's peace offering 1

  Exodus 20:24 You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.

  Leviticus 3:1 “If one’s offering is a peace offering and he offers an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he must present it without blemish before the LORD.

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• קׇרְבָּן qorbânoffering, oblationtranslated this way 71 times of its 75 uses · Strong’s H7133Noun  ·  Translated: offering 57, offerings 5, one's offering 4, offers 2

  Leviticus 1:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any of you brings an offering to the LORD, you may bring as your offering an animal from the herd or the flock.

  Numbers 5:15 then he is to bring his wife to the priest. He must also bring for her an offering of a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He is not to pour oil over it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, an offering of memorial as a reminder of iniquity.

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• עָלָה âlâhgo up, ascend, climbtranslated this way 66 times of its 873 uses · Strong’s H5927Verb  ·  Translated: go 118, went 107, brought 56, come 42

  Genesis 8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

  Exodus 24:5 Then he sent out some young men of Israel, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the LORD.

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• אִשָּׁה ishshâhan offering made by firetranslated this way 65 times of its 65 uses · Strong’s H801Noun  ·  Translated: food offering 46, food offerings 18, part of the food offerings 1

  Exodus 29:18 Then burn the entire ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.

  Leviticus 1:9 The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

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• נֶסֶךְ nesekdrink-offeringtranslated this way 51 times of its 56 uses · Strong’s H5262Noun  ·  Translated: drink offering 26, drink offerings 22, molten images 2

  Genesis 35:14 So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him— a stone marker— and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.

  Exodus 29:40 With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives, and a drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.

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• זָבַח zâbachslaughter for sacrificetranslated this way 37 times of its 132 uses · Strong’s H2076Verb  ·  Translated: sacrifice 38, sacrificed 29, offer 17, offered 11

  Genesis 31:54 Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. And after they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.

  Exodus 8:26 But Moses replied, “It would not be right to do that, because the sacrifices we offer to the LORD our God would be detestable to the Egyptians. If we offer sacrifices that are detestable before the Egyptians, will they not stone us?

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• אָשָׁם âshâmoffence, guilttranslated this way 36 times of its 42 uses · Strong’s H817Noun  ·  Translated: guilt offering 31, guilt offerings 5, guilt 2

  Leviticus 5:6 and he must bring his guilt offering to the LORD for the sin he has committed: a female lamb or goat from the flock as a sin offering. And the priest will make atonement for him concerning his sin.

  Numbers 6:12 He must rededicate his time of separation to the LORD and bring a year-old male lamb as a guilt offering. But the preceding days shall not be counted, because his separation was defiled.

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• תְּרוּמָה terûmâhcontribution, offeringtranslated this way 34 times of its 73 uses · Strong’s H8641Noun  ·  Translated: offering 24, contribution 13, portion 8, contributions 7

  Exodus 25:2 “Tell the Israelites to bring Me an offering. You are to receive My offering from every man whose heart compels him.

  Numbers 15:19 and you eat the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering to the LORD.

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• תְּנוּפָה tenûphâha swinging, waving, wave-offering, offeringtranslated this way 27 times of its 30 uses · Strong’s H8573Noun  ·  Translated: wave offering 26, waved 1, wave offerings 1, uplifted 1

  Exodus 29:24 Put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons and wave them before the LORD as a wave offering.

  Leviticus 7:30 With his own hands he is to bring the food offerings to the LORD; he shall bring the fat, together with the breast, and wave the breast as a wave offering before the LORD.

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• עָשָׂה âsâhdo, maketranslated this way 23 times of its 2,478 uses · Strong’s H6213Verb  ·  Translated: done 292, made 265, make 143, did 112

  Exodus 29:38 This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old.

  Exodus 29:39 Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight.

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• נְדָבָה nedâbâhvoluntariness, freewill-offeringtranslated this way 19 times of its 25 uses · Strong’s H5071Noun  ·  Translated: freewill offering 10, freewill offerings 9, freely 3, willingly 1

  Exodus 35:29 So all the men and women of the Israelites whose hearts prompted them brought a freewill offering to the LORD for all the work that the LORD through Moses had commanded them to do.

  Leviticus 7:16 If, however, the sacrifice he offers is a vow or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, but the remainder may be eaten on the next day.

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• קָרַב qârabcome near, approachtranslated this way 19 times of its 276 uses · Strong’s H7126Verb  ·  Translated: present 65, bring 18, approached 16, presented 14

  Leviticus 2:14 If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer crushed heads of new grain roasted on the fire.

  Numbers 3:4 Nadab and Abihu, however, died in the presence of the LORD when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai. And since they had no sons, only Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron.

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• קֹדֶשׁ qôdeshsacred, sanctitytranslated this way 18 times of its 437 uses · Strong’s H6944Noun  ·  Translated: holy 192, sanctuary 42, sacred 31, according to the sanctuary 24

  Leviticus 22:2 “Tell Aaron and his sons to treat with respect the sacred offerings that the Israelites have consecrated to Me, so that they do not profane My holy name. I am the LORD.

  Numbers 18:8 Then the LORD said to Aaron, “Behold, I have put you in charge of My offerings. As for all the sacred offerings of the Israelites, I have given them to you and your sons as a portion and a permanent statute.

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• קָטַר qâṭarmake sacrifices smoke, send them up in smoketranslated this way 9 times of its 114 uses · Strong’s H6999Verb  ·  Translated: burn 33, burned incense 21, burn incense 14, burning incense 13

  Numbers 16:40 just as the LORD commanded him through Moses. This was to be a reminder to the Israelites that no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should approach to offer incense before the LORD, lest he become like Korah and his followers.

  2 Kings 16:13 He offered his burnt offering and his grain offering, poured out his drink offering, and splattered the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.

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• תּוֹדָה tôdâhthanksgivingtranslated this way 8 times of its 32 uses · Strong’s H8426Noun  ·  Translated: thanksgiving 19, thank offerings 5, thank offering 3, thank 2

  2 Chronicles 29:31 Then Hezekiah said, “Now that you have consecrated yourselves to the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all whose hearts were willing brought burnt offerings.

  Psalm 50:14 Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.

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• זֶבַח zebachsacrificetranslated this way 7 times of its 121 uses · Strong’s H2077Noun  ·  Translated: sacrifices 55, sacrifice 49, offerings 6, other sacrifices 5

  Exodus 24:5 Then he sent out some young men of Israel, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the LORD.

  Leviticus 22:29 When you sacrifice a thank offering to the LORD, offer it so that it may be acceptable on your behalf.

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• נָתַן nâthangive, put, settranslated this way 6 times of its 1,957 uses · Strong’s H5414Verb  ·  Translated: give 326, gave 206, given 187, put 135Full study and all 1,785 verses →
• נֶדֶר nedervowtranslated this way 5 times of its 59 uses · Strong’s H5088Noun  ·  Translated: vow 26, vows 24, vow offerings 3, offerings 2

  Leviticus 23:38 These offerings are in addition to the offerings for the LORD’s Sabbaths, and in addition to your gifts, to all your vow offerings, and to all the freewill offerings you give to the LORD.

  Deuteronomy 12:6 To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

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• דָּבָר dâbârspeech, wordtranslated this way 4 times of its 1,244 uses · Strong’s H1697Noun  ·  Translated: word 342, words 299, acts 51, Chronicles 42

  Genesis 34:18 Their offer seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.

  Deuteronomy 2:26 So from the Wilderness of Kedemoth I sent messengers with an offer of peace to Sihon king of Heshbon, saying,

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• מִלֻּא millusetting, installationtranslated this way 3 times of its 15 uses · Strong’s H4394Noun  ·  Translated: ordination 8, mounted 2, ordination offering 2, mount 1

  Leviticus 7:37 This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering, and the peace offering,

  Leviticus 8:28 Then Moses took these from their hands and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering. This was an ordination offering, a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.

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• חָטָא châṭâmisstranslated this way 3 times of its 233 uses · Strong’s H2398Verb  ·  Translated: sinned 73, sin 33, committed 26, sins 21

  Leviticus 6:26 The priest who offers it shall eat it; it must be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.

  2 Chronicles 29:24 And the priests slaughtered the goats and put their blood on the altar for a sin offering, to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had ordered the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel.

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• קְרֵב qerêbapproachtranslated this way 3 times of its 9 uses · Strong’s H7127Verb  ·  Translated: approached 3

  Ezra 6:10 Then they will be able to offer sacrifices of a sweet aroma to the God of heaven and to pray for the lives of the king and his sons.

  Ezra 6:17 For the dedication of the house of God they offered a hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and a sin offering for all Israel of twelve male goats, one for each tribe of Israel.

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• רוּם rûmbe high, exalted, risetranslated this way 3 times of its 185 uses · Strong’s H7311Verb  ·  Translated: exalted 23, exalt 18, lift 14, raised 10

  Numbers 15:20 From the first of your dough, you are to lift up a cake as a contribution; offer it just like an offering from the threshing floor.

  Ezra 8:25 and I weighed out to them the contribution of silver and gold and the articles that the king, his counselors, his leaders, and all the Israelites there had offered for the house of our God.

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• נָסַךְ nâsakpour outtranslated this way 3 times of its 27 uses · Strong’s H5258Verb  ·  Translated: poured 9, pour 6, pouring drink offerings 2, instead 2

  Exodus 25:29 You are also to make the plates and dishes, as well as the pitchers and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them out of pure gold.

  Jeremiah 44:17 Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.

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• חָדָשׁ châdâshnewtranslated this way 2 times of its 53 uses · Strong’s H2319Adjective  ·  Translated: new 42, offering of new 2, new things 2

  Leviticus 23:16 You shall count off fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD.

  Numbers 28:26 On the day of firstfruits, when you present an offering of new grain to the LORD during the Feast of Weeks, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.

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• כָּלִיל kâlîlentire, whole, holocausttranslated this way 2 times of its 15 uses · Strong’s H3632Adjective  ·  Translated: completely 3, whole 3, perfect 3, entirely 2

  Deuteronomy 13:16 And you are to gather all its plunder in the middle of the public square, and completely burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. The city must remain a mound of ruins forever, never to be rebuilt.

  Deuteronomy 33:10 He will teach Your ordinances to Jacob and Your law to Israel; he will set incense before You and whole burnt offerings on Your altar.

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• מִנְחָה minchâhgift, offeringtranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s H4504Noun  ·  Translated: together with their grain offerings 1, offering 1

  Ezra 7:17 With this money, therefore, you are to buy as many bulls, rams, and lambs as needed, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings, and offer them on the altar at the house of your God in Jerusalem.

  Daniel 2:46 At this, King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, paid homage to Daniel, and ordered that an offering and incense be presented to him.

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• אֵת êthwithtranslated this way 2 times of its 640 uses · Strong’s H854Preposition  ·  Translated: with 144, with you 64, with him 62, with me 35

  Leviticus 14:11 The priest who performs the cleansing shall present the one to be cleansed, together with these offerings, before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

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• נָגַשׁ nâgashdraw near, approachtranslated this way 2 times of its 123 uses · Strong’s H5066Verb  ·  Translated: approached 24, approach 12, come near 9, Bring 9

  1 Kings 4:21 And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

  Malachi 1:8 When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the LORD of Hosts.

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• תְּפִלָּה tephillâhprayertranslated this way 2 times of its 76 uses · Strong’s H8605Noun  ·  Translated: prayer 66, prayers 6, prayer offered 1, prayers offered 1

  2 Chronicles 6:40 Now, my God, may Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.

  2 Chronicles 7:15 Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.

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• הָלַל hâlalshinetranslated this way 2 times of its 165 uses · Strong’s H1984Verb  ·  Translated: praise 65, Hallelujah 24, praised 14, boast 9Full study and all 140 verses →
• נְדַב nedabvolunteer, offer freelytranslated this way 2 times of its 3 uses · Strong’s H5069Verb  ·  Translated: volunteers 1, freely offered 1, freewill offerings 1Full study and all 3 verses →
• פֶּסַח pesachpassovertranslated this way 2 times of its 48 uses · Strong’s H6453Noun  ·  Translated: Passover 36, Passover lamb 4, Passover sacrifice 2, Passover lambs 2Full study and all 45 verses →
• נָדַב nâdabincite, impeltranslated this way 2 times of its 17 uses · Strong’s H5068Verb  ·  Translated: prompted 2, volunteer 2Full study and all 15 verses →
• פֶּגֶר pegercorpse, carcasstranslated this way 2 times of its 23 uses · Strong’s H6297Noun  ·  Translated: bodies 7, corpses 7, carcasses 2, funeral offerings 2Full study and all 21 verses →
• נָשָׂא nâsâlift, take, carrytranslated this way 2 times of its 642 uses · Strong’s H5375Verb  ·  Translated: bear 49, lift 45, lifted 41, carried 38Full study and all 601 verses →

Greek words (New Testament)

• προσφέρω prosphérōI bring to, offertranslated this way 26 times of its 46 uses · Strong’s G4374Verb  ·  Translated: brought 11, offered 11, offer 9, presented 2Full study and all 44 verses →
• προσφορά prosphoráan offering, sacrificetranslated this way 8 times of its 9 uses · Strong’s G4376Noun  ·  Translated: offering 6, present offerings 1, offerings 1, sacrifice 1Full study and all 9 verses →
• δίδωμι dídōmiI offer, givetranslated this way 6 times of its 403 uses · Strong’s G1325Verb  ·  Translated: give 110, given 107, gave 72, gives 14Full study and all 370 verses →
• ἀναφέρω anaphérōI carry up, lead up, offer uptranslated this way 5 times of its 10 uses · Strong’s G399Verb  ·  Translated: led 2, offered 2Full study and all 9 verses →
• παρίστημι parístēmiI bring, present, come up to and stand bytranslated this way 4 times of its 41 uses · Strong’s G3936Verb  ·  Translated: present 9, standing nearby 6, stand 3, presented 3Full study and all 39 verses →
• ὁλοκαύτωμα holokaútōmaa whole burnt offeringtranslated this way 3 times of its 3 uses · Strong’s G3646Noun  ·  Translated: burnt offerings 3Full study and all 3 verses →
• σπένδω spéndōI pour out as a libationtranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s G4689Verb  ·  Translated: poured out like a drink offering 2Full study and all 2 verses →
• θύω thýōI sacrifice, killtranslated this way 2 times of its 14 uses · Strong’s G2380Verb  ·  Translated: kill 5, sacrificed 3, killed 2Full study and all 13 verses →

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.