תְּנוּפָה
tᵉnûwphâh · ten-oo-faw'
a brandishing (in threat); by implication, tumult; specifically, the official undulation of sacrificial offerings
Lexicon
Derivation: from H5130 (נוּף);
a brandishing (in threat); by implication, tumult; specifically, the official undulation of sacrificial offerings
- a brandishing (in threat)
- by implication, tumult
- specifically, the official undulation of sacrificial offerings
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: offering, shaking, wave (offering).
Letters
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
- 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)
the mark, the covenant sign › the seed, life continuing › to fasten and establish › to speak, the word › to reveal, behold
The mark, the covenant sign of the seed, life continuing that works to fasten and establish that works to speak, the word that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of תְּנוּפָה 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
30 occurrences · 30 OT · 0 NT · 16 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- them for a wave offering5 · 17%
- it for a wave offering3 · 10%
- for a wave offering3 · 10%
- of the wave offering2 · 7%
- of the offering2 · 7%
- and the wave2 · 7%
- them for an offering2 · 7%
- offered an offering1 · 3%
- for the wave1 · 3%
- to be waved1 · 3%
- wave1 · 3%
- with the wave1 · 3%
- for an offering1 · 3%
- them as an offering1 · 3%
- with all the wave offerings1 · 3%
- of them shall be thine, as the wave1 · 3%
- of the shaking1 · 3%
- of shaking1 · 3%
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.