תּוֹדָהtôwdâh
thanksgiving
Pronunciation: to-daw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8426
Meanings
1. give praise to ׳ י (Joshua 7:19; Ezra 10:11)
2. thanksgiving in songs of liturgical worship (Psalms 26:7; Psalms 42:5; Jonah 2:10)
3. thanksgiving choir, procession, line, company (Nehemiah 12:31; Nehemiah 12:38; Nehemiah 12:40)
4. thank-offering (Amos 4:5; Leviticus 7:12; Leviticus 7:13)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 32 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 7:12 If you present your peace offering as an expression of thanksgiving, the usual animal sacrifice must be accompanied by various kinds of bread made without yeast—thin cakes mixed with olive oil, wafers spread with oil, and cakes made of choice flour mixed with olive oil.
- Leviticus 7:13 This peace offering of thanksgiving must also be accompanied by loaves of bread made with yeast.
- Leviticus 7:15 The meat of the peace offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the same day it is offered. None of it may be saved for the next morning.
- Leviticus 22:29 When you bring a thanksgiving offering to the Lord, sacrifice it properly so you will be accepted.
- Joshua 7:19 Then Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the Lord, the God of Israel, by telling the truth. Make your confession and tell me what you have done. Don’t hide it from me.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:31 Then Hezekiah declared, “Now that you have consecrated yourselves to the Lord, bring your sacrifices and thanksgiving offerings to the Temple of the Lord.” So the people brought their sacrifices and thanksgiving offerings, and all whose hearts were willing brought burnt offerings, too.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).