krban · offering

What it means

krban (קׇרְבָּן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “offering”.

(qorban): what is "brought near" to God. It comes from the verb "bring near" and is the general word for any offering; Jesus mentions it in Mark 7:11.

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. What is brought near to YHWH as a gift.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Offering: what is presented or brought near to YHWH. It comes from the verb קָרַב, “bring near, present” (H7126). BDB: something brought near the altar: a sacrificial present. It is the general word, covering animals, grain and objects.

• “When anyone of you presents an offering to YHWH” Leviticus 1:2Leviticus 3:1
• The grain offering Leviticus 2:1
• The offerings of the tribal chiefs Numbers 7:13
• The offering of the wood Nehemiah 10:34
• Offerings to other gods Ezekiel 20:28

Historical and cultural background

Almost all its occurrences are in Leviticus and Numbers. The word passed into the Greek of the New Testament: in Mark 7:11 Jesus quotes the formula “is Corban” (that is, an offering).

How we translate it

“Offering” 80 times and “offerings” 2. קָרְבָּן is “offering” and הִקְרִיב “present” (“presents an offering”, Leviticus 1:2), so that the family can be seen; the ritual grain offering (מִנְחָה) remains “grain offering” (Leviticus 2:1).

How it is translated

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

• offering ×80
• offerings ×2

Where it appears

• Leviticus×40
• Numbers×38
• Nehemiah×2
• Ezekiel×2

• Leviticus 1:2

  “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them: When anyone of you presents an offering to YHWH, from the beasts, from the herd or from the flock you shall present your offering.

• Leviticus 1:3

  If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall present a male without defect; at the entrance of the tent of meeting he shall present it, for his acceptance before YHWH.

• Leviticus 1:10

  And if his offering is from the flock, from the lambs or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall present a male without defect.

• Leviticus 1:14

  And if his offering to YHWH is a burnt offering from the birds, he shall present his offering from the turtledoves or from the young pigeons.

• Leviticus 2:1

  When a person presents a grain offering to YHWH, his offering shall be of fine flour; he shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it.

• Leviticus 2:4

  When you present a grain offering baked in an oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers smeared with oil.

• Leviticus 2:5

  And if your offering is a grain offering on the griddle, it shall be of fine flour, mixed with oil, unleavened.

• Leviticus 2:7

  And if your offering is a grain offering of the pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.

• Leviticus 2:12

  As an offering of firstfruits you may present them to YHWH, but to the altar they shall not go up as a pleasing aroma.

• Leviticus 2:13

  Every offering of your grain offering you shall season with salt; and you shall not leave out the salt of the covenant of your Elohim from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall present salt.

• Leviticus 3:1

  And if his offering is a sacrifice of peace, if he presents it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall present it without defect before YHWH.

• Leviticus 3:2

  He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall splash the blood against the altar all around.

• Leviticus 3:6

  And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace to YHWH is from the flock, male or female, he shall present it without defect.

• Leviticus 3:7

  If he presents a lamb as his offering, he shall present it before YHWH.

• Leviticus 3:8

  He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it before the tent of meeting, and the sons of Aaron shall splash its blood against the altar all around.

• Leviticus 3:12

  And if his offering is a goat, he shall present it before YHWH.

• Leviticus 3:14

  From it he shall present his offering, a fire offering to YHWH: the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,

• Leviticus 4:23

  or his sin that he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a male goat without defect.

• Leviticus 4:28

  or his sin that he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a female goat, without defect, for his sin that he has committed.

• Leviticus 4:32

  And if he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without defect.

• Leviticus 5:11

  But if his means do not reach to two turtledoves or to two young pigeons, he shall bring, as his offering for what he has sinned, a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering; he shall not put oil on it, and he shall not put frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.

• Leviticus 6:20

  “This is the offering of Aaron and his sons that they shall present to YHWH on the day he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a continual grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.

• Leviticus 7:13

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

• Leviticus 7:14

  From it he shall present one from each offering as a contribution to YHWH; it shall belong to the priest who splashes the blood of the peace offerings, to him.

• 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 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 7:29

  “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: The one who presents his sacrifice of peace to YHWH shall bring his offering to YHWH from his sacrifice of peace.

• Leviticus 7:38

  which YHWH commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day he commanded the sons of Israel to present their offerings to YHWH, in the wilderness of Sinai.

• Leviticus 9:7

  Moses said to Aaron, “Draw near to the altar and offer your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make expiation for yourself and for the people; and offer the offering of the people and make expiation for them, as YHWH has commanded.”

• Leviticus 9:15

  He presented the offering of the people, took the goat of the sin offering that was for the people, slaughtered it, and offered it for sin like the first.

• Leviticus 17:4

  and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to present an offering to YHWH before the dwelling of YHWH, blood shall be counted to that man: he has shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his people.

• 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 22:27

  “When a calf or a lamb or a kid is born, it shall be seven days under its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be accepted as a fire offering to YHWH.

• Leviticus 23:14

  And bread or roasted grain or fresh grain you shall not eat until this very day, until you have brought the offering of your Elohim; it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

• Leviticus 27:9

  And if it is a beast of which they present an offering to YHWH, all that he gives of it to YHWH shall be holy.

• Leviticus 27:11

  And if it is any unclean beast of which they may not present an offering to YHWH, he shall set the beast before the priest,

• Numbers 5:15

  then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, a tenth of an ephah of barley flour; he shall not pour oil on it and not put frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of memorial, bringing to remembrance iniquity.

• Numbers 6:14

  and he shall present his offering to YHWH: one male lamb a year old, without defect, as a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old, without defect, as a sin offering, and one ram without defect as a peace offering,

• Numbers 6:21

  This is the instruction for the Nazirite who vows his offering to YHWH for his consecration, besides what his hand can afford; according to his vow that he vows, so he shall do, according to the instruction for his consecration.”

• Numbers 7:3

  And they brought their offering before YHWH: six covered wagons and twelve oxen, a wagon for every two of the chiefs, and an ox for each one; and they presented them before the dwelling.

And 42 more times.