A present (as offered up ), especially in sacrifice or as tribute
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H8641 is a Hebrew noun for a contribution or portion lifted up and set apart, especially an offering presented for the LORD's sanctuary, priests, or holy service, though some contexts use it for tribute or an allotted district. Exodus 25:2 instructs Moses to receive an offering from every person whose heart compels him for the tabernacle's construction.
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H8641 is a Hebrew noun for a contribution or portion lifted up and set apart, especially an offering presented for the LORD's sanctuary, priests, or holy service, though some contexts use it for tribute or an allotted district. Exodus 25:2 instructs Moses to receive an offering from every person whose heart compels him for the tabernacle's construction.
The BSB source-word alignment has 76 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include an offering (8), portion (6), as a contribution (5), as an offering (5), the contributions (4).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Exodus 25:2. Its strongest book concentrations include Ezekiel (20), Numbers (18), Exodus (17), Leviticus (6).
H8641 is a Hebrew noun for a contribution or portion lifted up and set apart, especially an offering presented for the Lord's sanctuary, priests, or holy service, though some contexts use it for tribute or an allotted district. Exodus 25:2 instructs Moses to receive an offering from every person whose heart compels him for the tabernacle's construction. Leviticus 7:14 identifies a portion of the fellowship offering that belongs to the officiating priest.
Second Chronicles 31:10 reports abundant contributions during Hezekiah's reforms, with enough for the priests and much left because the Lord had blessed His people. The term can therefore involve willing gifts, commanded portions, material support, sacred goods, or civic exaction. H8641 opens teaching on worship expressed through tangible resources, shared responsibility, and careful stewardship of what is dedicated.
It corrects manipulation that treats every appeal for money as divinely compulsory or confuses a set-apart gift with payment for access, favor, healing, or spiritual status.
H8641 names something contributed, lifted, or set apart. Torah passages define offerings for sanctuary work and priestly portions, later narratives record their collection and distribution, and prophetic texts can extend the term to land or tribute. Each context specifies giver, purpose, recipient, and obligation.
“Tell the Israelites to bring Me an offering. You are to receive My offering from every man whose heart compels him.
The Israelites are invited to bring the Lord an offering from hearts moved to participate in furnishing the tabernacle.
From the cakes he must present one portion of each offering as a contribution to the Lord. It belongs to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offering.
One portion from each kind of bread accompanying the fellowship offering is contributed to the Lord and assigned to the officiating priest.
And Azariah, the chief priest of the household of Zadok, answered him, “Since the people began to bring their contributions into the house of the Lord, we have had enough to eat, and there is plenty left over, because the Lord has blessed His people; this great abundance is what is left over.”
The chief priest reports that the people's contributions have supplied the household of the Lord abundantly during Hezekiah's reforms.
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Hebrew word. Gift lifted up and separated for God; sacred contribution signifying honor, allegiance, or appeasement.
Gift lifted up and separated for God; sacred contribution signifying honor, allegiance, or appeasement.
a present (as offered up), especially in sacrifice or as tribute BDB: contribution Usage: gift, heave offering (shoulder), oblation, offered(-ing).
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H8641 describes material value redirected from ordinary possession toward a named sacred or communal purpose. In Exodus 25, willing hearts supply the costly materials from which the tabernacle will be made. The invitation dignifies participation, but it does not give collectors permission to manufacture compulsion. In Leviticus, a contributed portion belongs to the priest who performs the prescribed service.
This reminds readers that offerings can support real people and ordered responsibilities, not only objects or buildings. Second Chronicles shows contributions becoming food and abundance for the temple community, together with appointed oversight and distribution. The blessing is visible in sufficient provision, not in private luxury detached from the gift's stated purpose.
Other texts apply H8641 to tribute or land set aside, which prevents a single modern fundraising formula from controlling the word. Faithful application should make purpose, authority, accounting, and distribution clear. Leaders should never imply that a gift purchases God's attention, cancels repentance, secures healing, or proves superior faith. Givers also need freedom from shame and from exaggerated promises of return.
H8641 teaches that dedication is concrete: resources leave one use and become accountable to another. Because something is called holy, its handling should become more transparent and just, not less.
Exod.25.2
H8641 is related to the idea of raising or setting apart a portion. Translation varies among offering, contribution, heave offering, gift, tribute, and portion because the noun appears in sanctuary, priestly, royal, and territorial settings.
New Testament teaching also joins willing generosity, support for ministry, care for people in need, and accountable handling of collections. Those later instructions can be compared canonically with H8641 without transferring every Israelite sanctuary portion directly into a universal church levy.