Wave offering
תְּנוּפָהStrong’s H8573tenuphah (te-nu-phah)
Appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tenuphah is the Hebrew word usually translated “wave-offering”, “wave-offering of” and “wave-offerings of”. It appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.”
Meaning
- Swinging, waving, wave offering, offeringa swinging, brandishing · waving, wave-offering (technical term of sacrifice) · offering (of gold or brass)
How it's translated
- a wave-offering 16
- the wave-offering 9
- a wave-offering of 1
- to a wave-offering 1
- wave-offerings of 1
- brandishing of 1
- brandishing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 13
- Numbers 7
- Exodus 6
- Isaiah 2
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 29:26And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be thy part.
- Exodus 29:27And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:
- Exodus 35:22And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the LORD.
- Exodus 38:24All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
- Exodus 38:29And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.
- Leviticus 7:30His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
תְּנוּפָה tenuphah · wave offering
1) swinging, waving, wave offering, offering 1a) a swinging, brandishing 1a1) of God's hand, weapons 1b) waving, wave-offering (technical term of sacrifice) 1c) offering (of gold or brass)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “brandish” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BRAND'ISH, verb transitive
- To move or wave, as a weapon; to raise, and move in various directions; to shake or flourish; as, to brandish a sword or a cane.
- To play with; to flourish; as, to brandish syllogisms.
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.