מִנְחָה
minchâh · min-khaw'
a donation; euphemistically, tribute; specifically a sacrificial offering (usually bloodless and voluntary)
Lexicon
Derivation: from an unused root meaning to apportion, i.e. bestow;
a donation; euphemistically, tribute; specifically a sacrificial offering (usually bloodless and voluntary)
- a donation
- euphemistically, tribute
- specifically, a sacrificial offering (usually bloodless and voluntary)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: gift, oblation, (meat) offering, present, sacrifice.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › the seed, life continuing › to separate and protect › to reveal, behold
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of the seed, life continuing that works to separate and protect that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מִנְחָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
211 occurrences · 211 OT · 0 NT · 91 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- for a meat offering22 · 16%
- and their meat offering12 · 9%
- and the meat offering10 · 7%
- an offering10 · 7%
- and his meat offering8 · 6%
- a meat offering8 · 6%
- the meat offering7 · 5%
- gifts6 · 4%
- of the meat offering6 · 4%
- a present5 · 4%
- meat offering5 · 4%
- the present5 · 4%
- and meat offerings4 · 3%
- presents4 · 3%
- his meat offering4 · 3%
- and a meat offering3 · 2%
- for the meat offering3 · 2%
- sacrifice3 · 2%
- offering3 · 2%
- the offering3 · 2%
- with the meat offering2 · 1%
- thereon: it is a meat offering2 · 1%
- be a meat offering2 · 1%
- my present2 · 1%
- and to his offering2 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.