Word

נְדָבָה

nᵉdâbâh · H5071 · Hebrew · 26 occurrences

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Meanings

out of free will, willingly, in abundance

State in which humans are willing to perform a certain task and show that by their actions

Examples
Deuteronomy 23:23 “You shall be careful and perform what goes out of your lips, since in fact you have vowed a voluntary offering to the LORD your God, whatever you have promised.
2 Chronicles 35:8 His officers also contributed a voluntary offering to the people, the priests, and the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the officials of the house of God, gave the priests 2,600 from the flocks and three hundred bulls, for the Passover offerings.
Psalm 54:6 Willingly I will sacrifice to You; I will praise Your name, LORD, for it is good.
voluntary offering, freewill offering

Something offered to God as a free gift without any obligation

Examples
Exodus 35:29 The Israelites, all the men and women, whose heart moved them to bring material for all the work, which the LORD had commanded through Moses to be done, brought a voluntary offering to the LORD.
Exodus 36:3 They received from Moses every contribution which the sons of Israel had brought to perform the work in the construction of the sanctuary. And they still continued bringing to him voluntary offerings every morning.
Leviticus 7:16 ‘But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice, and on the next day what is left of it may be eaten;

How it’s used In 8 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

8 occurrences in 6 groups

כֶםyour 3
יָדhand, power 1
אֱלֹהִיםGod, gods 1
פֶּהmouth 1
ךָyour 1
הֶםtheir 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

3 occurrences in 3 groups

דָבַרto speak, to say 1
נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
קָרַבto come near, to offer 1

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 2 groups

עֹלָהburnt offering 1
שֶׁלֶםpeace offering, fellowship offering 1

What is done to itIt is the object

9 occurrences in 7 groups

בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 3
אָכַלto eat, to devour 1
נָדַבto offer willingly, to volunteer 1
נָדַרto make a vow 1
עָשָׂהto do, to make 1
קָרָאto call, to cry out 1

Second object ofSecond object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

עָשָׂהto do, to make 2

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

4 occurrences in 5 groups

זֶבַחsacrifice 1
זָהָבgold 1
כֶּסֶףsilver 1
עַםpeople 1
קוֹרֵאrock partridge 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

8 occurrences in 5 groups

לto/for 4
בin/on/with 3
עִםwith 2
מִןfrom 1
עַלon, upon, over, against 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 3 groups

גֶּשֶׁםrain 1
מִסָּהproportionate amount 1
בַּדalone, besides, pole 1

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

קׇרְבָּן qorbân · H7133 · offering, gift, present: נְדָבָה emphasizes the voluntary, freewill nature of the offering; קׇרְבָּן is the general, unmarked term for any offering or oblation.

In the other Testament 1 word

ἑκούσιον hekoúsion · G1595 · willing, willingly, of one’s own free will: Greek equivalent for the Hebrew/Aramaic freewill offering concept, emphasizing the voluntary character of the offering itself; ἑκούσιον captures the willingness/voluntariness semantic component that נְדָבָה encodes.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Willing002001002028: נְדָבָה denotes something given freely and willingly, as in the freewill offerings the people brought to the LORD beyond what was required, tying the word to voluntary, unforced generosity.
Sacrifice002003002021: The word specifically names a category of offering distinct from vowed or obligatory sacrifices, the voluntary freewill offering described in Leviticus 7:16 and 22:18, 22:21, 22:23, functioning as a term for this particular kind of cultic gift.

Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

נָדַב nâdab · H5068 · to impel, to urge, to incite · 17×נְדָבָהnᵉdâbâh · H5071נָדִיב nâdîyb · H5081 · willing, noble person · 25×נְדַב nᵉdab · H5069 · freewill, offer freely · 4×נְדִיבָה nᵉdîybâh · H5082 · dignity, noble deed · 4×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5071. nedabah נְדָבָה noun feminine voluntariness, freewill-offering; — absolute ׳נ Exo…

H5071. nedabah
נְדָבָה noun feminine voluntariness, freewill-offering; — absolute ׳נ Exo 35:29 Exo 35:14t.; construct נִדְבַת Deu 16:10; plural נְדָבוֺת Amo 4:5; Psa 68:10; נְדָבֹת Psa 110:3; construct נִדְבוֺת Psa 119:108; 2Ch 31:14; suffix נִדְבֹתֶ֫יךָ Deu 12:7 Deu 12:4t. suffixes; —
1voluntariness נְדָבָה אֹהֲבֵם Hos 14:5 I (׳י) will love them freely; חֵילֶ֑ךָ בְּיוֺם נְדָבֹת עַמְּךָ Psa 110:3 thy people will be (all) voluntariness in the day of thy host (be ready to volunteer, see BrMP 133); נדבות גֶּשֶׁם Psa 68:10 generous (copious) rain; בנדבה Psalm 54:8 voluntarily, and adverb. accusative נדבה Deu 23:24 (see Dr.).
2 freewill, voluntary, offering:
a. including gifts used in erection and furnishing of tabernacle Exo 35:29; Exo 36:3 (P); for first temple 2Ch 31:14, second Ezr 1:6; Ezr 8:28.
b. including עולה and שׁלמים Ezekiel 46:42; probably also Amo 4:5, פִי נדבות Psa 119:108.
c. usually a זֶבַח for festival meals at Passover 2Ch 35:8, Pentecost Deu 16:10, Tabernacles Ezr 3:5 (besides the ritual offerings); distinguished from נֶדֶר votive offering Lev 7:16; Num 15:3; Num 29:39 (P), Lev 22:18, Lev 22:21, Lev 22:23; Lev 23:38 (H), Deu 12:6, Deu 12:17. — (Verbs used are נ ׳הביא Exo 35:29; Exo 36:3; נ ׳הקריבLev 22:18; נ ׳עשׂה Num 15:3; Eze 46:12; נ ׳נתן Lev 23:38; Deu 16:10.)

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Willing6 occurrences Sacrifice20 occurrences

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