Lexical Summary minchah: a gift, tribute, offering Original Word: מִנְחָהTransliteration: minchah Phonetic Spelling: (min-khaw') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: a gift, tribute, offering Meaning: a donation, tribute, a sacrificial offering Strong's Concordance gift, oblation, meat offering, present, sacrifice From an unused root meaning to apportion, i.e. Bestow; a donation; euphemistically, tribute; specifically a sacrificial offering (usually bloodless and voluntary) -- gift, oblation, (meat) offering, present, sacrifice. Brown-Driver-Briggs H4503. minchah מִנְחָה153 noun feminine gift, tribute, offering (Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician מנחת; מִנְחָתָא ᵑ7; on Arabic see above); — absolute ׳מ Genesis 4:3 81t.; construct מִנְחַת Leviticus 2:7 22t.; suffix מִנְחָתִי Genesis 33:10 3t.; + 41 t. suffixes singular; plural suffix מִנְחֹתֶיךָ Psalm 20:4; מִנְחֹתֵיבֶם Numbers 29:39; Amos 5:22; — 1 gift, present Genesis 32:14; 32:19; 32:21; 32:22 (E), 33:10; 43:11, 15, 25, 26 (J), Judges 6:18; 1 Samuel 10:27; 1 Kings 10:25 2 Chronicles 9:24; 2 Kings 8:8-9, 20:12 = Isaiah 39:1; Psalm 45:13; 2 Chronicles 32:23. 2 tribute Judges 3:15, 17, 18 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 8:2, 6 = 1 Chronicles 18:2; 18:6, 1 Kings 5:1; 2 Kings 17:3-4, 2 Chronicles 17:5, 11; 26:8; Hosea 10:6; Psalm 72:10. 3 offering made to God, of any kind, whether grain or animals Genesis 4:3-4, 5; Numbers 16:15 (J), 1 Samuel 2:17, 29; 26:19; Isaiah 1:13; Psalm 96:8; Zephaniah 3:10; + (probably) הַ֫מִּנְחָה (לַ)עֲלוֺת 1 Kings 18:29, 36; 2 Kings 3:20 (Ehpraimitic source; usually regarded as = עֶרֶב מִנְחַת, but that much later usage). This General meaning possibly an also in following; ומנחה זבח 1 Samuel 2:29 (see 2:29 b), 3:14; Isaiah 19:21; ומנחה עלה Jeremiah 14:12; "" עולה Psalm 20:4; "" שֶׁלֶם Amos 5:22 (עֹלוֺת gloss, to explain אָרִיחַ); or these may shew early stage of discrimination. 4 grain offering (whether raw, roasted, ground to flour, or prepared as bread or cakes, see below. AV meat offering, misleading < RV meal-offering. GFMJudges 3:22 renders cereal oblation); — טָהוֺר בִּכְלִי אֶתהַֿמִּנְחָה יָבִיאוּ Isaiah 66:20 they bring the grain offering in clean vessels (restored Jews are brought as such an offering), compare טהורה מנחה Malachi 1:11; brought in hands Jeremiah 41:5 (late addition Co); received from hands Malachi 1:10; למנחה חִטִּים 1 Chronicles 21:23 wheat for grain offering; סֹלֶת 23:29, mixed with oil Ezekiel 46:14, baked 46:20; distinguished from other offerings 1 Kings 8:64 (twice in verse) = 2 Chronicles 7:7; 2 Kings 16:13, 15 (3 t. in verse); Isaiah 43:23; 57:6; 66:3; Jeremiah 17:26; 33:18; 41:5 (late editors Co), Ezekiel 42:13; 44:29; 45:15, 17 (twice in verse); 45:25; Daniel 9:27; Psalm 40:7; used alone Nehemiah 13:5, 9; Ezekiel 45:24; 46:5 (twice in verse); 46:7, 11, 14 (twice in verse); 46:15; Malachi 1:13; 2:12-13, 3:3-4, Judges 13:19, 23 (R, GFMJud 322); מִנְחַת עֶרֶב (הָ) evening grain offering 2 Kings 16:15; Ezra 9:4-5, Daniel 9:21; Psalm 141:2; הַתָּמִיד מִנְחַת continual grain off. Nehemiah 10:34, compare Leviticus 6:13; Numbers 4:16 (all cases under 4 exilic or post-exilic). 5 grain-offering, always with this meaning in P, in classifications Exodus 30:9; 40:29; Leviticus 7:37; 23:37; Numbers 18:9; 29:39; — a. אָבִיב grain in the ear parched with fire, with oil and frankincense Leviticus 2:14-15,. b. סֹלֶת fine flour with oil and frankincense Leviticus 2:1; 6:7; elsewhere בַּשֶּׁמֶן בְּלוּלָה mingled with oil 14:10, 21; 23:13; Numbers 7:13 10t. 8:8; 15:4, 6, 9; 28:5-6t. 29:3, 9, 14, except sin offering of very poor where offered without oil and frankincense Leviticus 5:11-13. c. סֹלֶת baked in an oven as חַלּוֺת perforated cakes, or רְקִיקִים flat cakes Leviticus 2:4; 7:9; Numbers 6:15, הַמַּחֲבַת על on a flat pan Leviticus 2:5; 6:14; 7:9, or מַרְחֶשֶׁת frying pan 2:7; 7:9. All these always unleavened (מַצּוֺת) and mixed with oil and salt 2:11-13. d. at Pentecost to consecrate new bread, חֲדָשָׁה מִנְחָה new grain offering of two loaves of leavened bread Leviticus 23:16-17, Numbers 28:26 e. barley meal without oil or incense; קְנָאֹת מִנְחַת grain offering of jealousy, ׳מ זִכָּרוֺן Numbers 5:15, 18, 25. compare phrases הַבֹּקֶר מִנְחַת morning oblation Exodus 29:41; Numbers 28:8; מ ׳קָרְבַּן Leviticus 2:1, 4, 13; ׳מ בִּכּוּרִים 2:14; ׳מ מִּתִּים 6:14. 6 verbs of offering are הֵבִיא Genesis 4:3 (J), Leviticus 2:2, 8 (P), Isaiah 1:13; 66:20 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 17:26; Malachi 1:13; הִקְרִיב Leviticus 2:1, 8, 11; 6:7; Numbers 5:25; עשׂה 6:17; 28:31; 1 Kings 8:64 2 Chronicles 7:7; Ezekiel 45:24; 46:7, 14, 15; הקטיר 2 Kings 16:13, 15; Jeremiah 33:18; העלה Isaiah 57:6; 66:3; Jeremiah 14:12; הגישׁ Amos 5:25; Malachi 2:12; 3:3; הוביל Zephaniah 3:10; נשׂא Psalm 96:8, also (׳מ = tribute) 2 Samuel 8:2, 6 and "". מְנֻחָה see מְנוּחָה below נוח. מְנַחֵם see נחם. מָנַחְתִּי מְנֻחוֺת, מָנַ֫חַת, see נוח. מְנִי see מנה. מִנְחָה noun feminine gift, offering (Biblical Hebrew id., √ מנח); — 1 oblation, to God's representative, absolute ׳מ Daniel 2:46. 2 techn. meal-offering, plural suffix מִנְחָֽתְהוֺן Ezra 7:17. מִנְיָן see מנה. above |