teruma · contribution

What it means

teruma (תְּרוּמָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “contribution”.

What is set apart from one's goods to give to God; also a portion set aside or a gift.

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 set aside and given to YHWH.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Contribution: what is set apart or lifted from one's goods for YHWH or for the priests. It comes from רוּם, “lift up” (H7311). BDB: something raised, an offering; from there a tribute, a portion set apart.

• The contribution for building the dwelling Exodus 25:2Exodus 35:5
• The half shekel as a contribution Exodus 30:13
• What belongs to the priest Leviticus 7:32Numbers 18:8
• The portion of land set apart in Ezekiel Ezekiel 45:1
• “{In} the tithe and the contribution” Malachi 3:8Nehemiah 10:37

How we translate it

“Contribution” 68 times and “contributions” 8. This edition's glossary sets תְּרוּמָה = “contribution”, and הֵרִים תְּרוּמָה is “set apart a contribution” (Numbers 15:19-20), with the verb of the same root, so that it can be seen that it is what is set apart.

How it is translated

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

• contribution ×68
• contributions ×8

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×17
• Leviticus×6
• Numbers×18
• Deuteronomy×3
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×4
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×20
• Malachi×1

• Exodus 25:2

  “Speak to the sons of Israel, that they take for me a contribution; from every man whose heart moves him you shall take my contribution.

• Exodus 25:3

  And this is the contribution that you shall take from them: gold, silver, and bronze;

• 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 29:28

  It shall be for Aaron and for his sons as a statute forever from the sons of Israel, for it is a contribution; and it shall be a contribution from the sons of Israel from their sacrifices of peace, their contribution to YHWH.

• Exodus 30:13

  This they shall give, everyone who passes over to those numbered: half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as a contribution to YHWH.

• Exodus 30:14

  Everyone who passes over to those numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the contribution of YHWH.

• Exodus 30:15

  The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when giving the contribution of YHWH to make expiation for your lives.

• Exodus 35:5

  ‘Take from among you a contribution for YHWH. Whoever is generous of heart, let him bring it, the contribution of YHWH: gold, and silver, and bronze;

• Exodus 35:21

  And they came, every man whose heart stirred him, and everyone whose spirit moved him, and they brought the contribution of YHWH for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments.

• Exodus 35:24

  Everyone who set apart a contribution of silver and bronze brought the contribution of YHWH; and everyone with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service brought it.

• 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.

• Exodus 36:6

  So Moses commanded, and they made a proclamation pass through the camp, saying, “Let no man or woman do any more work for the contribution of the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing.

• 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 7:32

  And the right thigh you shall give as a contribution to the priest from your sacrifices of peace.

• 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 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 22:12

  And if the daughter of a priest becomes the wife of a man who is a stranger, she shall not eat of the contribution of the holy things.

• Numbers 5:9

  And every contribution of all the holy things of the sons of Israel that they present to the priest shall be his.

• 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 15:19

  then when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall set apart a contribution for YHWH.

• Numbers 15:20

  Of the first of your dough you shall set apart a loaf as a contribution; like the contribution of the threshing floor, so you shall set it apart.

• Numbers 15:21

  Of the first of your dough you shall give to YHWH a contribution throughout your generations.

• Numbers 18:8

  And YHWH spoke to Aaron, “And I, look, I have given you the charge of my contributions, of all the holy things of the sons of Israel; I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual due.

• 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 18:19

  All the contributions of the holy things that the sons of Israel set apart for YHWH I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters with you as a perpetual due. It is a covenant of salt forever before YHWH for you and for your offspring with you.”

• Numbers 18:24

  For the tithe of the sons of Israel, which they set apart to YHWH as a contribution, I have given to the Levites as an inheritance; therefore I have said to them, ‘Among the sons of Israel they shall not inherit an inheritance.’”

• Numbers 18:26

  “And to the Levites you shall speak and say to them, ‘When you take from the sons of Israel the tithe that I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you shall set apart from it a contribution for YHWH, a tithe of the tithe.

• Numbers 18:27

  And your contribution shall be counted to you as the grain from the threshing floor, and as the full produce from the winepress.

• Numbers 18:28

  So you also shall set apart a contribution for YHWH from all your tithes that you take from the sons of Israel, and you shall give from it the contribution for YHWH to Aaron the priest.

• Numbers 18:29

  From all your gifts you shall set apart every contribution for YHWH, from all the best of it, the holy part of it from it.

• Numbers 31:29

  From their half you shall take it and give it to Eleazar the priest as a contribution to YHWH.

• Numbers 31:41

  Moses gave the tribute, the contribution of YHWH, to Eleazar the priest, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Numbers 31:52

  And all the gold of the contribution that they set apart for YHWH was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels, from the commanders of thousands and from the commanders of hundreds.

• 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 12:11

  Then to the place that YHWH your Elohim chooses to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I am commanding you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution of your hand, and all the choicest of your vows that you vow to YHWH.

• 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;

• 2 Samuel 1:21

  Mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew and no rain on you, nor fields of contributions; for there the shield of the mighty was abhorred, the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.

• 2 Chronicles 31:10

  Azariah the head priest of the house of Zadok spoke to him and said, “Since they began to bring the contribution into the house of YHWH, we have eaten and been satisfied and much has been left over, for YHWH has blessed his people; and what is left is this abundance.”

• 2 Chronicles 31:12

  They brought in the contribution and the tithe and the holy things with faithfulness. Over them as leader was Conaniah the Levite, and Shimei his brother was second.

And 36 more times.