Word

תְּנוּפָה

tᵉnûwphâh · H8573 · Hebrew · 30 occurrences

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Meanings

Action by which humans hold an object in their hands and move it to and fro, probably in order to signal to a deity that the object in their hands is intended for them (to wave, to present (an offering))

Examples
Exodus 29:24 and you shall put all these in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons, and shall wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.
Exodus 29:26 “Then you shall take the breast of Aaron’s ram of ordination, and wave it as a wave offering before the LORD; and it shall be your 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 offered from the ram of ordination, from the one which was for Aaron and from the one which was for his sons.
Literally: waving (one's) hand; hence: action by which deities stretch out their arm and move it, often as a gesture or signal (waving (one's) hand)

Examples
Isaiah 19:16 On that day the Egyptians will become like women, and they will tremble and be in great fear because of the waving of the hand of the LORD of armies, which He is going to wave over them.
Isaiah 30:32 And every blow of the rod of punishment, Which the LORD will lay on him, Will be with the music of tambourines and lyres; And in battles, brandishing weapons, He will fight them.

How it’s used In 5 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

3 occurrences in 3 groups

בֵּןson 1
זָהָבgold 1
יָדhand, power 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

נוּףto wave 2

Second object ofSecond object

14 occurrences in 1 groups

נוּףto wave 14

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 3

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

12 occurrences in 7 groups

חָזֶהbreast 6
זָהָבgold 1
לֶחֶםbread, food 1
מִלְחָמָהwar, battle 1
נְחֹשֶׁתbronze, copper 1
עֹמֶרsheaf 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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Semantic domains 2 entries

Sacrifice002003002021: This noun denotes a wave offering presented to the LORD, as in Exodus 29:24's instruction to wave the ram of ordination as a wave offering before Him.
Stance002001001061: The noun also denotes the physical waving motion of presentation, as in Exodus 29:27's reference to the breast and thigh which were waved and offered from the ram of ordination.

Word family 6 words

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

נוּף nûwph · H5130 · to wave, to present (an offering), to wield · 37×תְּנוּפָהtᵉnûwphâh · H8573נֹפֶת nôpheth · H5317 · virgin honey · 5×נָפָה nâphâh · H5299 · sieve · 4×נוֹף nôwph · H5131 · elevation, height, loftiness · 1×נֶפֶת nepheth · H5316 · hill · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8573. tenuphah תְּנוּפָה30 noun feminine a swinging, waving, wave-offering, offering; —…

H8573. tenuphah
תְּנוּפָה30 noun feminine a swinging, waving, wave-offering, offering; — absolute ׳ת Isa 30:32 +; construct תְּנוּפַת Isa 19:16; Exo 35:22; plural construct תְּנוּפֹת Num 18:11; —
1 a swinging, brandishing, ׳ת י ׳יַד Isa 19:16 the brandishing of׳י's hand (in hostility); ת ׳מִלְהֲמוֺת Isa 30:32 battles of brandishing (brandished weapons).
2. a. waving, wave-offering, technical term in P (H), originally of priest's share of sacrifice (compare נוף Hiph`il 4), בְּנֵ ׳לְכָּלתְּֿנוּפֹת ׳יִשׂ נְתַתִּים לְךָ Num 18:11; often as 2nd accusative after הֵנִיף Exo 29:25 Exo 29:5t.; even of Levites Num 8:11, Num 8:13, Num 8:15, Num 8:20 (on all see נוף Hiph`il 4); הַתְּ ׳חֲזֵה Exo 29:27 the wave-breast, so Lev 7:34; Lev 10:14-15, Num 6:20 (all + הַתְּרוּמָה שׁוֺק) Num 18:18 (+ הַיָּמִין שׁוֺק); הַתְּ ׳עֹמֶר Lev 23:15; הַתְּ ׳לָחֶם Lev 23:17; ׳ת alone Lev 23:20 (all H); less accurately Exo 29:24; Lev 8:27; Lev 14:12, Lev 14:21, Lev 14:24 (see נוףl.c.).
b. offering, of gold and brass for tabernacle, Exo 35:22; Exo 38:24, Exo 38:29. — On ׳ת see DiLev 7:30 BenzArchaeology 459 f. and especially NowArchaeology ii. 239 f; also תְּרוּמָה.
II. נוף (√ of following; compare Arabic , I, IV. overtop (Frey), camel-hump (ib.); high, lofty (of mountain and building, Lane3039).

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Stance2 occurrences Sacrifice28 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