toda · thanksgiving

What it means

toda (תּוֹדָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “thanksgiving”.

Acknowledging aloud what God has done; also the sacrifice offered to give thanks, and a choir giving thanks.

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. Grateful praise aloud for what God has done.
2. The thanksgiving sacrifice.
3. A group that sings to give thanks, in a procession.
4. Owning up to the truth or one's sin.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• thanksgiving ×25
• thanksgivings ×4
• acknowledgment ×2
• thank offering ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×5
• Joshua×1
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×4
• Psalms×12
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×3
• Amos×1
• Jonah×1

• Leviticus 7:12

  If he presents it for thanksgiving, then he shall present, with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and fine flour well mixed, cakes mixed with oil.

• Leviticus 7:13

  With cakes of leavened bread he shall present his offering with his sacrifice of peace for thanksgiving.

• Leviticus 7:15

  The flesh of his sacrifice of peace for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering; he shall not leave any of it until morning.

• Leviticus 22:29

  And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to YHWH, you shall sacrifice it so that you are accepted.

• Joshua 7:19

  Then Joshua said to Achan, “My son, please give glory to YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, and give him acknowledgment; and please tell me what you have done; do not hide it from me.”

• 2 Chronicles 29:31

  Hezekiah answered and said, “Now you have ordained yourselves to YHWH; come near and bring sacrifices and thanksgivings to the house of YHWH.” And the assembly brought sacrifices and thanksgivings, and all who were of a generous heart, burnt offerings.

• 2 Chronicles 33:16

  He built the altar of YHWH and sacrificed on it sacrifices of peace and of thanksgiving, and told Judah to serve YHWH, the Elohim of Israel.

• Ezra 10:11

  So now, give acknowledgment to YHWH, the Elohim of your fathers, and do his will, and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign women.”

• Nehemiah 12:27

  And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to hold the dedication and rejoicing, with thanksgivings and with song, cymbals, harps, and with lyres.

• Nehemiah 12:31

  Then I brought up the officials of Judah onto the wall, and I appointed two great thanksgiving choirs and processions: one went to the right on top of the wall toward the Dung Gate.

• Nehemiah 12:38

  And the second thanksgiving choir went in the opposite direction, and I went after it, and half of the people, on top of the wall, above the Tower of the Ovens, as far as the Broad Wall,

• Nehemiah 12:40

  So the two thanksgiving choirs stood in the house of Elohim, and I, and half of the officials with me;

• Psalms 26:7

  to make heard the voice of thanksgiving and to recount all your wonders.

• Psalms 42:4

  These things I remember, and I pour out within me my soul: how I would pass along with the throng; I would walk with them to the house of Elohim, with the voice of shouts of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

• Psalms 50:14

  Sacrifice to Elohim thanksgiving, and pay to Elyon your vows,

• Psalms 50:23

  The one who sacrifices thanksgiving honors me, and to the one who sets his way I will show the salvation of Elohim.”

• Psalms 56:12

  Upon me, Elohim, are your vows; I will pay thanksgivings to you.

• Psalms 69:30

  I will praise the name of Elohim with a song, and I will magnify him with thanksgiving.

• Psalms 95:2

  Let us come to meet his face with thanksgiving; with songs let us raise a shout to him.

• Psalms 100:1

  A psalm for thanksgiving. Raise a shout to YHWH, all the earth.

• Psalms 100:4

  Enter his gates with thanksgiving, his courts with praise; give thanks to him, bless his name.

• Psalms 107:22

  And let them sacrifice sacrifices of thanksgiving, and recount his works with shouts of joy.

• Psalms 116:17

  To you I will sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and on the name of YHWH I will call.

• Psalms 147:7

  Sing to YHWH with thanksgiving; sing psalms to our Elohim with the lyre,

• Isaiah 51:3

  For YHWH will comfort Zion, he will comfort all her ruins; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her Arabah like the garden of YHWH; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of song.

• Jeremiah 17:26

  And they will come from the cities of Judah and from the surroundings of Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the Shephelah, and from the hill country, and from the Negev, bringing burnt offering and sacrifice, and grain offering and frankincense, and bringing thanksgiving to the house of YHWH.

• Jeremiah 30:19

  And out of them will go thanksgiving and the sound of those who make merry; and I will multiply them, and they will not decrease; and I will honor them, and they will not be made small.

• Jeremiah 33:11

  the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to YHWH Tsevaot, for YHWH is good, for his loyal love is forever,’ as they bring thanksgiving to the house of YHWH; for I will bring back the captivity of the land as at the first, says YHWH.

• 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.

• Jonah 2:9

  But I, with the voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to YHWH.”

And 2 more times.