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== Deffinition of offering ==

# a thing offered, especially as a gift or contribution.
: "animals as sacrificial offerings"
: "you may place offerings in the basket"

#     a thing produced or manufactured for entertainment or sale.     "Hollywood's latest offerings for the European market"
#     a contribution, especially of money, to a church.
#     a thing offered as a religious sacrifice or token 

There are numerous words translated ''offering'' within the Torah.
They are almost all about [[Charity]] yet the word ''[[charity]]'', which is also translated ''love'' every time Christ says it, is not found anywhere in the Old Testament. 

How can this be?

Upon examination of the context, language and theme of the [[Bible]] from beginning to end, it is clear that God's message is and always has been about giving and forgiving.

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One is ''[[teruwmah]]''<Ref name="tᵉruwmah">{{08641}}</Ref> Which appears as offering more than 50 times but also ''oblation'' or ''gift''.

And another is ''[[tenuwphah]]''.<Ref name="tenuwphah3">{{08573}}</Ref>
 
Then there is a word often translated ''[[Freewill offerings|freewill offering]]'' from ''[[nedabah]]'' <Ref>05071 ^הבדנ^ nᵉdabah \@ned-aw-baw’\@ from 05068; n f;  AV-freewill offering 15, offerings 9, free offering 2, freely 2,     willing offering 1, voluntary offering 1, plentiful 1,   voluntarily 1, voluntary 1, willing 1, willingly 1; 26 1) voluntariness, free-will offering  1a) voluntariness  1b) freewill, voluntary, offering</Ref> and is defined in the sense of ''voluntarism''.
 
: The word ''nedabah'' is from the root ''nadab'' <Ref name="nadab8">{{05068}}</Ref> meaning to be incited  to make an offering willingly.
 
Another term like [[Korban]]<Ref name="qarab33">{{07133}}</Ref> is from the word [[Korab]]<Ref name="qarab26">{{07126}}</Ref> as found in the Torah in relation to the [[Worship|worship]] of Ancient Israel, which was an offering for the practice of [[Pure Religion]]. 

Another is ''[[minchah]]''<Ref name="minchah3">{{04503}}</Ref> appearing as offering some 164 times, but also a ''present'' or ''gift'' numerous times.

The [[meat offering]] in the Hebrew is ''minchah''. As a word, they are different from the ''burnt offering''. The term ''minchah''<Ref name="minchah4">{{04504}}</Ref> also appears sometimes with another Strong's number assigned to it.
 
 
Another of the words is ''olah''<Ref name="olah">{{05930}}</Ref> which is associated with the meaning of root ''alah''<Ref name="alah">{{05927}}</Ref> which has to with ''up'' or ''ascend'' and contains the same Hebrew letters.   

[[Numbers 28]] also mentions a drink offering and a meat offering. What are these? The drink offering in the Hebrew text is ''nesek'',<Ref name="necek2">{{05262}}</Ref> from nacak, <Ref name="nacak">{{05258}}</Ref> meaning to pour out or cover. 

And ''[[shelem]]'' <Ref name="shelem2">{{08002}}</Ref> is translated ''peace offering'' over 80 times. The term ''korban shelamim'' (קורבן שלמים) is rendered "peace offering". A modern Jewish encyclopedia suggests that there are three kinds of peace-offering: (1) the thank-offering; (2) the votive-offering; and (3) the free-will offering. But M. M. Kalisch  says that the ''shelamim'' were "safety-offerings." They were connected with the essential to a secure existence.<Ref>"[https://archive.org/details/ahistoricalandc00kaligoog A Historical and Critical Commentary on the Old Testament], Book of Leviticus," part i., pp. 241-249, London, 1867</Ref>
 
There are also words that include the word offering to translate their meaning like  ''chattaah''<Ref>02403 ^האטח^ chatta’ah \@khat-taw-aw’\@ or     ^תאטח^ chatta’th \@khat-tawth’\@ from 02398; n f;  AV-sin 182, sin offering 116, punishment 3, purification for sin 2,  purifying 1, sinful 1, sinner 1; 296 1) sin, sinful 2) sin, sin offering   2a) sin  2b) condition of sin, guilt of sin  2c) punishment for sin  2d) sin-offering  2e) purification from sins of ceremonial uncleanness</Ref> meaning ''sin offering''.
 
And ''ishshah'' <Ref> 0801 ^השׁא^ ‘ishshah \@ish-shaw’\@ the same as 0800, but used in a liturgical sense; n m;  AV-offering … by fire 65; 65 1) burnt-offering, offering made by fire, fire offering</Ref> meaning a ''burnt-offering''.
 
There are root words like zabach <Ref> 02076 ^חבז^ zabach \@zaw-bakh’\@ a primitive root; v;  AV-sacrifice 85, offer 39, kill 5, slay 5; 134 1) to slaughter, kill, sacrifice, slaughter for sacrifice  1a) (Qal)    1a1) to slaughter for sacrifice      1a2) to slaughter for eating    1a3) to slaughter in divine judgment  1b) (Piel) to sacrifice, offer sacrifice</Ref> which are used to produce words like [[Altars]] which also is translated offer or sacrifice. 
 
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