Thanksgiving
תּוֹדָהStrong’s H8426todah (to-dah)
Appears in 30 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Todah is the Hebrew word usually translated “thanksgiving”, “thank-offering” and “thanksgiving of”. It appears in 30 verses of the Old Testament.
“If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.”
Meaning
- Confession, praise, thanksgivinggive praise to God · thanksgiving in songs of liturgical worship, hymn of praise · thanksgiving choir or procession or line or company · thank-offering, sacrifice of thanksgiving · confession
How it's translated
- thanksgiving 9
- a thank-offering 5
- with thanksgiving 4
- thanksgiving of 2
- and thank-offerings 2
- and thanksgiving 2
- confession 1
- praise 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 12
- Leviticus 4
- Nehemiah 4
- Jeremiah 3
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Joshua 1
10 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 7:13Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.
- Leviticus 7:15And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.
- Leviticus 22:29And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at your own will.
- Joshua 7:19And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.
- 2 Chronicles 29:31Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the LORD. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.
- 2 Chronicles 33:16And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.
Hebrew dictionary
תּוֹדָה todah · thanksgiving
1) confession, praise, thanksgiving 1a) give praise to God 1b) thanksgiving in songs of liturgical worship, hymn of praise 1c) thanksgiving choir or procession or line or company 1d) thank-offering, sacrifice of thanksgiving 1e) confession
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “thanksgiving” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THANKSGIV'ING, participle present
tense Rendering thanks for good received.
All definitions and other forms of “thanksgiving”
THANKSGIV'ING, noun
The act of rendering thanks or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies.
- “Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if received with thanksgiving” 1 Timothy 4:4
- A public celebration of divine goodness; also, a day set apart for religious services, specially to acknowledge the goodness of God, either in any remarkable deliverance from calamities or danger, or in the ordinary dispensation of his bounties.
THANK'-WORTHY, adjective
[thank and worthy.]
Deserving thanks; meritorious.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.