What does προσφορά (prosphorá) mean in the Bible?
προσφορά (prosphorá): A concrete sacrificial offering or oblation; often emphasizes the act of presenting rather than the victim itself.
Greek · G4376
προσφορά
Presentation; concretely, an oblation (bloodless) or sacrifice
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προσφορά G4376
Pronunciation prosphorá
What does προσφορά (prosphorá) mean in the Bible?
προσφορά (prosphorá): A concrete sacrificial offering or oblation; often emphasizes the act of presenting rather than the victim itself.
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G4376?
The BSB source-word alignment has 9 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include offering (4), [an] offering (1), an offering (1), offerings (1), sacrifice (1).
Where does προσφορά (prosphorá) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Acts 21:26. Its strongest book concentrations include Hebrews (5), Acts (2), Ephesians (1), Romans (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It offering 4× Acts 21:26, Ephesians 5:2, Hebrews 10:5, Hebrews 10:14
[an] offering 1× Romans 15:16
an offering 1× Hebrews 10:18
offerings 1× Hebrews 10:8
sacrifice 1× Hebrews 10:10
to present offerings 1× Acts 24:17
Show sample aligned rows
Acts 21:26 προσφορά to offering Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular Acts 24:17 προσφοράς to to present offerings Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural Romans 15:16 προσφορὰ to [an] offering Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular Ephesians 5:2 προσφορὰν to offering Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular Hebrews 10:5 προσφορὰν to offering Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular Hebrews 10:8 προσφορὰς to offerings Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural Hebrews 10:10 προσφορᾶς to sacrifice Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular Hebrews 10:14 προσφορᾷ to offering Noun - Dative Feminine Singular Hebrews 10:18 προσφορὰ to an offering Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Acts 21:26
Aligned rows 9
Books represented 4
Acts 2 Romans 1 Ephesians 1 Hebrews 5
Source forms
προσφορὰ 2x prosphora Romans 15:16, Hebrews 10:18
προσφορὰν 2x prosphoran Ephesians 5:2, Hebrews 10:5
προσφορά 1x prosphora Acts 21:26
προσφορᾷ 1x prosphora Hebrews 10:14
προσφοράς 1x prosphoras Acts 24:17
προσφορὰς 1x prosphoras Hebrews 10:8
προσφορᾶς 1x prosphoras Hebrews 10:10
Parsing patterns
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular 3x Acts 21:26, Romans 15:16, Hebrews 10:18
Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural 2x Acts 24:17, Hebrews 10:8
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular 2x Ephesians 5:2, Hebrews 10:5
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular 1x Hebrews 10:14
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular 1x Hebrews 10:10
Evidence Summary
Greek word. A concrete sacrificial offering or oblation; often emphasizes the act of presenting rather than the victim itself.
Strong's G4376
Lexical occurrences 9 verses Greek text appearances 9 times Word forms 5 forms 9 references Verse guides 0 guides
Study link Ephesians 5:2 Source Gloss
presentation; concretely, an oblation (bloodless) or sacrifice
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
A concrete sacrificial offering or oblation; often emphasizes the act of presenting rather than the victim itself.
(προσφέρω), [in LXX: 3Ki.7:48 (פָּנִים) Psa.40:6 (מִנְחָה), I Est.5:52, Sir.14:11, al. ;]
1a bringing to, offering (Plat., al.).
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
9 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Acts 21:26 Noun Nominative Singular Feminine
προσφορά. prosfora
an offering, sacrifice
Read verse Acts 24:17 Noun Accusative Plural Feminine
προσφοράς· prosforav
an offering, sacrifice
Read verse Romans 15:16 Noun Nominative Singular Feminine
προσφορὰ prosfora
an offering, sacrifice
Read verse Ephesians 5:2 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
προσφορὰν prosforan
an offering, sacrifice
Read verse Hebrews 10:5 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
προσφορὰν prosforan
an offering, sacrifice
Read verse Hebrews 10:8 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
προσφορὰν prosforan
an offering, sacrifice
Read verse Hebrews 10:10 Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
προσφορᾶς prosforav
an offering, sacrifice
Read verse Hebrews 10:14 Noun Dative Singular Feminine
προσφορᾷ prosfora
an offering, sacrifice
Read verse Hebrews 10:18 Noun Nominative Singular Feminine
προσφορὰ prosfora
an offering, sacrifice
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 5 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 5 Aligned forms 9 Case pattern Accusative (4) Number pattern Singular (7)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · Feminine Acts 21:26 · Rom 15:16 · Heb 10:18 3×
Genitive · Singular · Feminine Heb 10:10 1×
Dative · Singular · Feminine Heb 10:14 1×
Accusative · Plural · Feminine Acts 24:17 · Heb 10:8 2×
Accusative · Singular · Feminine Eph 5:2 · Heb 10:5 2×
Selected Scripture Witnesses
Selected passage-level study witnesses for this word. This section is not the full occurrence list.
Biblical Witnesses
Christ's self-sacrifice as a fragrant offering to God
Christ's body presented as the true sacrificial offering
Sanctification through Christ's singular, perfected sacrifice
Christ's one offering achieving perpetual perfection for believers
Showing 4 selected witnesses from 9 lexical occurrence verses.
Word Origins
προσφορά is built from this root:
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Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain