nedava · freewill offering

What it means

nedava (נְדָבָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “freewill offering”.

One given on one's own initiative, without anyone requiring it. Also willingness, and abundance.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. An offering given without being asked.
2. Giving gladly, with no one compelling.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• freewill offering ×14
• freewill offerings ×10
• freely ×1
• generous ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×5
• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×4
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Ezra×3
• Psalms×4
• Ezekiel×2
• Hosea×1
• Amos×1

• Exodus 35:29

  Every man and woman whose heart moved them to bring something for all the work that YHWH had commanded to be done through Moses, the sons of Israel brought a freewill offering to YHWH.

• Exodus 36:3

  And they received from Moses all the contribution that the sons of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to do it. And they kept bringing to him still freewill offerings morning by morning.

• Leviticus 7:16

  But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, and on the next day what is left of it may be eaten.

• Leviticus 22:18

  “Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel, and say to them: Any man of the house of Israel or of the resident aliens in Israel who presents his offering, for any of their vows or for any of their freewill offerings that they present to YHWH as a burnt offering,

• Leviticus 22:21

  And when a man presents a sacrifice of peace to YHWH to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering, from the herd or from the flock, it shall be without defect to be accepted; no defect shall be in it.

• Leviticus 22:23

  And an ox or a lamb that has a limb too long or stunted you may offer as a freewill offering, it, but for a vow it will not be accepted.

• Leviticus 23:38

  besides the Sabbaths of YHWH, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to YHWH.

• Numbers 15:3

  and you offer a fire offering to YHWH, a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed times, to make a pleasing aroma to YHWH from the herd or from the flock,

• Numbers 29:39

  These you shall offer to YHWH at your appointed times, besides your vows and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your grain offerings, and for your libations, and for your peace offerings.”

• Deuteronomy 12:6

  There you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution of your hand, your vows and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.

• Deuteronomy 12:17

  You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or of your new wine or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, or any of your vows that you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the contribution of your hand;

• Deuteronomy 16:10

  And you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to YHWH your Elohim, with the measure of the freewill offering of your hand that you give, as YHWH your Elohim blesses you.

• Deuteronomy 23:23

  What goes out of your lips you shall keep and do, just as you have vowed to YHWH your Elohim a freewill offering that you have spoken with your mouth.

• 2 Chronicles 31:14

  Kore son of Imnah, the Levite, the gatekeeper at the east, was over the freewill offerings of Elohim, to give the contribution of YHWH and the most holy things.

• 2 Chronicles 35:8

  And his officials contributed as a freewill offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the leaders of the house of Elohim, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand six hundred flock animals and three hundred cattle.

• Ezra 1:4

  And everyone who remains, in any of the places where he resides as an alien, let the men of his place support him with silver, with gold, with goods, and with livestock, besides the freewill offering for the house of Elohim which is in Jerusalem.’”

• Ezra 3:5

  and after that the continual burnt offering, and those for the new moons and for all the appointed times of YHWH that were sanctified, and for everyone who freely offered a freewill offering to YHWH.

• Ezra 8:28

  And I said to them, “You are holy to YHWH, and the utensils are holy, and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to YHWH, the Elohim of your fathers.

• Psalms 54:6

  With a freewill offering I will sacrifice to you; I will give thanks to your name, YHWH, for it is good.

• Psalms 68:9

  A generous rain you poured out, Elohim; your inheritance, when it was weary, you made it firm.

• Psalms 110:3

  Your people are freewill offerings in the day of your power, in splendors of holiness; from the womb of the dawn, to you belongs the dew of your youth.

• Psalms 119:108

  Accept, please, YHWH, the freewill offerings of my mouth, and teach me your rules.

• Ezekiel 46:12

  And when the chief makes a freewill offering, a burnt offering or peace offerings, as a freewill offering to YHWH, one shall open for him the gate that faces east, and he shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he does on the day of the Sabbath; then he shall go out, and one shall shut the gate after he goes out.

• Hosea 14:4

  I will heal their turning away; I will love them freely; for my anger has turned from him.

• Amos 4:5

  And offer up in smoke a thank offering of leavened bread, and proclaim freewill offerings, announce them; for so you love it, children of Israel, declares Adonai YHWH.

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