נְדָבָה nedavah

Hebrew word for “voluntariness” · Strong’s H5071 · used 26 times in 25 verses

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Meaning

1) voluntariness, free-will offering; 1a) voluntariness; 1b) freewill, voluntary, offering

How it is translated

Glosses given for nedavah in context, with how often each is used:

• freewill offering 13
• freewill offerings 8
• voluntariness 3
• voluntarinesses 1
• will be freewill offerings 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Leviticus 22 (3), Deuteronomy 12 (2), Exodus 35 (1), Exodus 36 (1), Leviticus 7 (1), Leviticus 23 (1), Numbers 15 (1), Numbers 29 (1), Deuteronomy 16 (1), Deuteronomy 23 (1)

Forms

• נדבה 10
• נדבות 4
• לנדבה 2
• בנדבה 2
• ונדבתיכם 2
• נדבת 2
• נדבותם 1
• נדבותיכם 1
• ונדבתיך 1
• הנדבה 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with nedavah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• נֶדֶר neder “vow” 9
• עֹלָה olah “burnt offering” 6
• בָּקָר baqar “cattle” 5
• תְּרוּמָה terumah “contribution” 4
• זֶבַח zevach “sacrifice” 4
• אוֹ o “or” 4
• צֹאן tson “flock” 4
• שֶׁלֶם shelem “peace offering” 3
• קֹדֶשׁ qodesh “holiness” 4
• נָדַב nadav “be willing” 2
• מוֹעֵד moed “meeting” 3
• מַעֲשֵׂר maaser “tithe” 2

Key verses

The verses using nedavah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 35:29 — The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the…
• Leviticus 7:16 — But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also…
• Leviticus 22:18 — Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in…
• Numbers 15:3 — And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to…
• Numbers 29:39 — These things ye shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat…
• Deuteronomy 12:6 — And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill…
• Deuteronomy 12:17 — Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows…
• Deuteronomy 16:10 — And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the Lord thy God,…
• 2 Chronicles 35:8 — And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the…
• Psalms 110:3 — Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
• Ezekiel 46:12 — Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one shall then open him the gate that looketh toward…
• Hosea 14:4 — I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.