Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the Levitical law, a voluntary offering which when presented before the Lord was ‘heaved’ or elevated by the priest, and became the portion of the priests and their families.
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Examples
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If terumah [the heave-offering] is brought, he declares that it must be given to the priest.
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No contribution or heave-offering should be given to an ignorant priest.
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various
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I told him if the breakfast only to result in a heave-offering were omitted he would be better able for his duties of the forenoon.
The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure Edward Hooker Dewey
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If a case of mistaken identity should occur between the child of a priestess and the child of her female slave, so that the one cannot be distinguished from the other, they both are to eat of the heave-offering and to receive one share from the threshing-floor.
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various
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Nisan, (and) the heave-offering of an ox and a sheep before Pap-sukal of
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“The one for purification is unclean, the one containing the holy things, and the one with the heave-offering are clean.”
Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880
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The heave-offering of the Lord, and the heave-offering of the tithes, and of the dough, and of the first-fruits, and the heave-offering of the
Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880
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From the clean heave-offering one is not to take a citron, but if it be taken, it is allowed.
Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880
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The measure of the holy flesh is not as the measure of the heave-offering.
Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880
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When the time for wine and oil pressing has passed over, and a barrel of wine is brought for the heave-offering, it must not be received.
Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880
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