Wave-Offering, Heave-Offering
Wave-Offering, Heave-Offering
The wave-offering, Tenuphah (), was supposed to be shaken to and fro, whilst the heave-offering, Terumah (), was elevated. The LXX usually has , or for the wave-offering, and , first-fruits, for the heave-offering. The verb which gives the name to the first is rendered to wave wherever this word is used in the A. V.; in 2Ki 5:11, Naaman expresses his supposition that Elisha would ‘strike his h and over the place,’ or as our margin has it, ‘move his h and up and down.’ Compare Isa 30:28, where we read of God’s ‘sifting the nations with the sieve of vanity.’ It is rendered shake in Isa 10:15, al. The word is found in Psa 68:9, ‘Thou didst send (i.e. sift out from the clouds) a gracious rain up on thine inheritance.’ in Exo 20:25, Deu 27:5, and Jos 8:31, the lifting up (i.e. the movement to and fro) of the graving tool is spoken of.
The noun is rendered oblation in 2Ch 31:14, Isa 40:20, and Eze 44:30; it is rendered ‘offering’ in Exo 25:2, al.