προσφορά
prosphorá · G4376 · Greek · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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offering, sacrifice
That which is offered to God in religious activity
ExamplesActs 21:26 Then Paul took along the men, and the next day, after purifying himself together with them, he went into the temple giving notice of the completion of the days of purification, until the sacrifice was offered for each one of them.
Acts 24:17 “Now after several years I came to bring charitable gifts to my nation and to present offerings,
Romans 15:16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, ministering as a priest the gospel of God, so that my offering of the Gentiles may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἔθνοςnation, Gentiles 1
- σῶμαbody 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἷςone 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- προσφέρωto offer, to bring to 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- θέλωto want, to wish, to desire 1
- οὐnot 1
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- παραδίδωμιto hand over, to betray 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εὐπρόσδεκτοςvery acceptable 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- διάthrough 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- θυσία thysía · G2378 · sacrifice
- προσφορά and θυσία both denote sacrificial offerings. προσφορά emphasizes the act of presenting or offering itself, while θυσία is the broader term for sacrifice, encompassing both the act and the victim offered; the two converge closely within the shared field of sacrificial vocabulary.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Offering, sacrifice53.16
- The noun names a formal religious offering presented to God. Paul's account of his temple visit in Jerusalem uses this term: “he went into the temple giving notice of the completion of the days of purification, until the sacrifice was offered for each one of them” (Acts 21:26).
Word family 31 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon προσφοράς, ἡ (προσφέρω), offering; i. e. 1. the act of offering, a bringing to (Plato,…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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