Thanksgiving in the selected tôdâ passages is a response directed to God, sometimes expressed through a regulated sacrifice and sometimes through singing or declaration. Leviticus 7:12-15 gives concrete instructions for a thanksgiving peace offering.
Reading a lexicon entry
What this page is: Each lexicon entry shows the original Hebrew or Greek word behind the English translation: its meaning, its range of use, and where it appears in Scripture.
Strong's number: The Strong's code (H- or G-) is the standard reference number for this word. It connects this entry to chapter and passage language tabs.
Where it appears: The witness passages show where this word is used in context. Click any to open the study page for that passage.
This lexicon entry is part of our ongoing editorial review. If you notice missing content, unclear wording, or a possible correction, please send us a note through theConnect page. Screenshots are helpful.
Reader summary
Full entry for תּוֹדָה (H8426) · Open the biblical lexicon
Thanksgiving in the selected tôdâ passages is a response directed to God, sometimes expressed through a regulated sacrifice and sometimes through singing or declaration. Leviticus 7:12-15 gives concrete instructions for a thanksgiving peace offering.
The BSB source-word alignment has 32 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include of thanksgiving (7), with thanksgiving (5), and thank offerings (3), thanksgiving (3), a confession (2).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Leviticus 7:12. Its strongest book concentrations include Psalms (12), Leviticus (5), Nehemiah (4), 2 Chronicles (3).
Thanksgiving in the selected tôdâ passages is a response directed to God, sometimes expressed through a regulated sacrifice and sometimes through singing or declaration. Leviticus 7:12-15 gives concrete instructions for a thanksgiving peace offering. Psalm 100:4 welcomes worshippers with thanksgiving because the Lord is good and faithful. These settings give the noun more substance than a passing pleasant feeling.
Joshua 7:19 supplies an important contrast: Achan is asked to acknowledge what he has done rather than conceal it. The English confession there should neither erase the thanksgiving uses nor turn every occurrence into admission of wrongdoing. Psalm 50 joins thanksgiving to honoring God while rebuking people who recite His words and practice deceit. Teaching should keep acknowledgment truthful, grateful and accountable to the actual passage, without treating a grateful performance as payment for divine favor.
The witnesses move between a thanksgiving offering, joyful entrance into worship, and acknowledgment of concealed wrongdoing. Psalm 50 tests spoken worship against conduct, requiring attention to the purpose of each acknowledgment.
If he offers it in thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.
Thanksgiving is the stated occasion for a particular peace offering whose accompanying bread and handling are specified. The ritual setting matters before drawing an application about gratitude.
Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and bless His name.
Thanksgiving accompanies entrance into the Lord's presence, with His goodness and enduring faithfulness giving the reason for praise in the following verse.
So Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the Lord, the God of Israel, and make a confession to Him. I urge you to tell me what you have done; do not hide it from me.”
Joshua asks Achan to acknowledge the truth and disclose his hidden action. Here the acknowledgment concerns wrongdoing rather than a joyful thanksgiving ceremony.
He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rightly orders his way, I will show the salvation of God.”
Thanksgiving honors God within a psalm that exposes deceitful conduct beneath religious speech. The offering cannot be separated from the moral challenge of the surrounding address.
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders ItA compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
Hebrew word. Thanksgiving rooted in bodily gesture of extended hand; moves from personal avowal to corporate liturgical praise
Thanksgiving rooted in bodily gesture of extended hand; moves from personal avowal to corporate liturgical praise
properly, an extension of the hand, i.e. (by implication) avowal, or (usually) adoration; specifically, a choir of worshippers BDB: thanksgiving Usage: confession, (sacrifice of) praise, thanks(-giving, offering).
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
Selected passage-level study witnesses for this word. This section is not the full occurrence list.
Showing 1 selected witness from 32 lexical occurrence verses.
The dedication centers on grateful acknowledgment of God’s restorative work.Nehemiah 12:27-43
Compound and idiomatic phrases that include this word. Follow a link to study the phrase and how its parts work together.
Psalm 50 refuses to let worshippers place religious language beyond moral examination. Thanksgiving honors God, yet people who recite His statutes while cultivating theft, deceit and slander are rebuked. The psalm therefore supplies its own test for a teaching about gratitude: does acknowledgment of God accompany attention to His instruction, or does it cover its rejection? Leviticus supplies a different kind of precision by showing thanksgiving within a commanded offering rather than an undefined inward mood.
Joshua's demand that Achan tell the truth broadens the selected picture without making every thankful song a confession of guilt. In Luke 17, the healed Samaritan returns to thank Jesus; the narrative places gratitude after received mercy. The comparison can illuminate grateful response, but neither a Hebrew noun nor an illustration authorizes a promise that sufficient gratitude will purchase healing.
Ps.100.4
The noun appears in thanksgiving offerings and worship language, while Joshua 7:19 uses it in a demand for confession. The immediate occasion determines the kind of acknowledgment; a proposed derivation cannot replace those distinctions.
The grateful Samaritan in Luke 17 returns after receiving healing and gives glory to God at Jesus' feet. This can accompany the psalms' thankful worship as a canonical comparison. It establishes neither a shared lexical identity nor an obligation to perform gratitude before mercy can be received.