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Strong's #5071 - נְדָבָה
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- voluntariness, free-will offering
- voluntariness
- freewill, voluntary, offering
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2380) bdn (נדב NDB) AC: Offer CO: Offering AB: Honor: The offering of something with a willing heart as a sign of honor.
V) bdn (נדב NDB) - Offer: To offer something from a willing heart. [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (21): (vf: Paal, Hitpael) willingly, offer, freely, freewill, offering - Strongs: H5068 (נָדַב), H5069 (נְדַב)
Nf1) ebdn (נדבה NDBH) - Offering: A freewill offering. KJV (26): freewill, offering, free, willing, voluntary, plentiful, willingly - Strongs: H5071 (נְדָבָה)
bm) bidn (נדיב NDYB) - I. Willing: II. Noble:One with a willing heart. KJV (28): prince, noble, willing, free, liberal - Strongs: H5081 (נָדִיב)
bf1) ebidn (נדיבה NDYBH) - Honor: Of one with a willing heart. KJV (1): soul - Strongs: H5082 (נְדִיבָה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 voluntariness אֹהֲבֵם נְדָבָה Hosea 14:5 I (׳י) will love them freely; עַמְּךָ נְדָבֹת בְּיוֺםחֵילֶ֑ךָ Psalm 110:3 thy people will be (all) voluntariness in the day of thy host (be ready to volunteer, see Br MP 133); גֶּשֶׁם נדבות Psalm 68:10 generous (copious) rain; בנדבה Psalm 54:8 voluntarily, and adverb. accusative נדבה Deuteronomy 23:24 (see Dr.).
2 freewill, voluntary, offering:
a. including gifts used in erection and furnishing of tabernacle Exodus 35:29; Exodus 36:3 (P); for first temple 2 Chronicles 31:14, second Ezra 1:6; Ezra 8:28.
b. including עולה and שׁלמים Ezekiel 46:42; probably also Amos 4:5, נדבות פִי Psalm 119:108.
c. usually a זֶבַח for festival meals at Passover 2 Chronicles 35:8, Pentecost Deuteronomy 16:10, Tabernacles Ezra 3:5 (besides the ritual offerings); distinguished from נֶדֶר votive offering Leviticus 7:16; Numbers 15:3; Numbers 29:39 (P), Leviticus 22:18,21,23; Leviticus 23:38 (H), Deuteronomy 12:6,17. — (Verbs used are ׳הביא נ Exodus 35:29; Exodus 36:3; ׳הקריב נ Leviticus 22:18; ׳עשׂה נ Numbers 15:3; Ezekiel 46:12; ׳נתן נ Leviticus 23:38; Deuteronomy 16:10.)
נְדָבָה f.
(1) free-will, readiness of mind (to give); whence בִּנְדָבָה Numbers 15:3 Psalm 54:8 and acc. נְדָבָה Deuteronomy 23:24; Hosea 14:5 freely, with a willing mind. Plur. Psalms 110:3, עַמְּךָ נְדָבוֹת “thy people are willingnesses;” i.e. very prompt for military service [?], abstr. for concr.
(2) a spontaneous offering, Ezra 1:4 (compare verse Ezra 1:7), especially a freewill sacrifice, opp. to one that has been vowed (נֵדֶר); Exodus 35:29; Leviticus 22:23, נְדָבָה תַּעֲשֶׂה אֹתוֹ “as a voluntary sacrifice thou mayeat offer it.” One who offers spontaneously, and with a willing mind, is not sparing but gives with a large hand; hence
(3) largeness, abundance, Psalms 68:10, גֶּשֶׁם נְדָבוֹת “abundant, copious rain.”