Heave Offering
Heave-offering
(, terumiah’, from , to be high; Sept. usually ), a term including all that the Israelites voluntarily (Exo 25:2 sq.; Exo 35:24; Exo 36:3) or according to’ a precept (Exo 30:15; Lev 7:14; Num 15:19 sq.; Num 18:27 sq.; Num 21:29 sq.; comp. Eze 45:13) contributed of their own property to Jehovah (not as an offering in the usual sense, but) as a present (Isa 40:20), to be applied to the regular cultus, i.e. for the establishment and maintenance of the sanctuary and its accessories (Exo 25:2 sq.; Exo 30:13 sq.; Exo 25:5 sq., Exo 25:21; Exo 25:24; Exo 26:3; Exo 26:6; Ezr 8:25, etc.), or for the support of the priests (Exo 29:28; Num 18:8 sq. Num 18:5; Num 18:9). Prescribed contributions were, in addition to the annual temple-tax SEE TEMPLE, chiefly that share of the booty taken in war which be’ longed to the priests (Num 21:29 sq.), the yearly first-fruits (Num 15:19 sq.; comp. 2Sa 1:21), and the tenths which the Levites were required to make over to the priests out of the natural tithes paid to them (Num 18:25 sq.; what the Levites retained for their own use not being thus styled). The term seems to stand in a narrower sense in Neh 10:37; Neh 12:44; Neh 13:3, SEE FIRSTLING, and the Talmudists so call only the agricultural first-fruits appropriate to human use, together with the Levitical tenths (see the tract Terumoth in the Mishna, 1, 6). Heave-offerings are coupled with first fruits in Eze 20:40, and with tithes in Mal 3:8. In Eze 45:1; Eze 48:8; Ezekiel cf., Eze 12:20 sq., the same word is applied to that portion of the Holy Land which is represented as set apart for the maintenance of the sanctuary and the priests. For the care of all such contributions, as well as for voluntary offerings and tithes in general, a special class of officers was (from the time of king Hezekiah) detailed, of whom a higher priest had the superintendence (2Ch 21:11-12; 2Ch 21:14; Neh 12:44; Neh 13:5). Heave-offerings could be used or consumed only by the priests and their children (Num 18:19; Lev 22:10). Latei regulations are detailed in the Talmudical tract Terumolth. SEE WAVE-OFFERING.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Heave offering
Heb. terumah, (Ex. 29:27) means simply an offering, a present, including all the offerings made by the Israelites as a present. This Hebrew word is frequently employed. Some of the rabbis attach to the word the meaning of elevation, and refer it to the heave offering, which consisted in presenting the offering by a motion up and down, distinguished from the wave offering, which consisted in a repeated movement in a horizontal direction, a “wave offering to the Lord as ruler of earth, a heave offering to the Lord as ruler of heaven.” The right shoulder, which fell to the priests in presenting thank offerings, was called the heave shoulder (Lev. 7:34; Num. 6:20). The first fruits offered in harvest-time (Num. 15:20, 21) were heave offerings.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Heave-Offering
HEAVE-OFFERING.See Sacrifice and Offering.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Heave Offering
hev ofer-ing. See SACRIFICE.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Heave Offering
See OFFERINGS.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Heave Offering
See Offerings
Offerings