Contribution
תְּרוּמִיָּהStrong’s H8642terumiyyah (te-ru-miy-yah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Terumiyyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “contribution”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.”
Meaning
- Portion, contribution, what belongs to a contribution or attendant or secondary contribution or subdivision
How it's translated
- a contribution 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
תְּרוּמִיָּה terumiyyah · contribution
portion, contribution, what belongs to a contribution or attendant or secondary contribution or subdivision
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “contribution” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CONTRIBUTION, noun
- The act of giving to a common stock, or in common with others; the act of lending a portion of power or influence to a common purpose; the payment of each mans share of some common expense.
- That which is given to a common stock or purpose, either by an individual or by many.
- In a military sense, impositions paid by a frontier country, to secure themselves from being plundered by the enemys army; or impositions upon a country in the power of an enemy, which are levied under various pretenses, and for various purposes, usually for the support of the army.
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.