tenufa · wave offering

What it means

tenufa (תְּנוּפָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “wave offering”.

An offering presented by moving it back and forth before God. Also a swinging or brandishing (of the hand).

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 waved before YHWH when presented.
2. To move the hand or arm against someone, as a threat.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• as a wave offering ×15
• wave offering ×12
• brandishing ×1
• wave offerings ×1
• waving ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×6
• Leviticus×14
• Numbers×8
• Isaiah×2

• Exodus 29:24

  You shall put all of it on the palms of Aaron and on the palms of his sons, and wave them as a wave offering before YHWH.

• Exodus 29:26

  You shall take the breast from the ram of ordination that is for Aaron and wave it as a wave offering before YHWH, and it shall be yours as a portion.

• Exodus 29:27

  You shall consecrate the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution, which was waved and which was lifted up from the ram of ordination, from what is for Aaron and from what is for his sons.

• Exodus 35:22

  And they came, the men with the women, all who were generous of heart; they brought brooches and earrings and rings and necklaces, all kinds of articles of gold; and every man who waved a wave offering of gold to YHWH.

• Exodus 38:24

  All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary, the gold of the wave offering, was twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary.

• Exodus 38:29

  And the bronze of the wave offering was seventy talents and two thousand and four hundred shekels.

• Leviticus 7:30

  His own hands shall bring the fire offerings of YHWH; the fat with the breast he shall bring —the breast to wave it as a wave offering before YHWH.

• Leviticus 7:34

  For the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution I have taken from the sons of Israel, from their sacrifices of peace, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as a statute forever from the sons of Israel.

• Leviticus 8:27

  He put it all on the palms of Aaron and on the palms of his sons, and waved them as a wave offering before YHWH.

• Leviticus 8:29

  Moses took the breast and waved it as a wave offering before YHWH; from the ram of ordination it was Moses’ portion, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Leviticus 9:21

  But the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved as a wave offering before YHWH, as Moses had commanded.

• Leviticus 10:14

  The breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution you shall eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you; for they have been given as your portion and the portion of your sons from the sacrifices of peace of the sons of Israel.

• Leviticus 10:15

  The thigh of the contribution and the breast of the wave offering they shall bring, together with the fire offerings of the fat portions, to wave as a wave offering before YHWH; and it shall be yours and your sons’ with you, as a statute forever, as YHWH has commanded.”

• Leviticus 14:12

  The priest shall take the one lamb and present it as a guilt offering, with the log of oil, and wave them as a wave offering before YHWH.

• Leviticus 14:21

  But if he is poor and his means do not reach, he shall take one lamb as a guilt offering for a wave offering to make expiation for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil,

• Leviticus 14:24

  The priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before YHWH.

• Leviticus 23:15

  And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven full Sabbaths they shall be.

• Leviticus 23:17

  From your dwellings you shall bring two loaves for a wave offering; they shall be of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as first fruits to YHWH.

• Leviticus 23:20

  And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits as a wave offering before YHWH, with the two lambs; they shall be holy to YHWH for the priest.

• Numbers 6:20

  And the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before YHWH; it is holy for the priest, together with the breast of the wave offering and with the thigh of the contribution. And afterward the Nazirite may drink wine.

• Numbers 8:11

  And Aaron shall wave the Levites as a wave offering before YHWH from the sons of Israel, and they shall be for doing the service of YHWH.

• Numbers 8:13

  And you shall set the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and wave them as a wave offering to YHWH.

• Numbers 8:15

  And after that the Levites shall go in to serve the tent of meeting, when you have cleansed them and waved them as a wave offering.

• Numbers 8:21

  And the Levites purified themselves from sin and washed their clothes, and Aaron waved them as a wave offering before YHWH, and Aaron made expiation for them to cleanse them.

• Numbers 18:11

  And this is yours: the contribution of their gift, of all the wave offerings of the sons of Israel; I have given them to you and to your sons and to your daughters with you as a perpetual due. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.

• Numbers 18:18

  But their flesh shall be yours; like the breast of the wave offering and like the right thigh, it shall be yours.

• Isaiah 19:16

  On that day Egypt will be like women, and will tremble and be in dread before the waving of the hand of YHWH Tsevaot which he is waving over it.

• Isaiah 30:32

  And every passing of the appointed staff that YHWH lays upon him will be with tambourines and with lyres; and in battles of brandishing he will fight against them.

And 2 more times.