STRONGS NUMBER H5071


Word Summary
nedabah: voluntariness, freewill offering
Original Word: נְדָבָה
Transliteration: nedabah
Phonetic Spelling: (ned-aw-baw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: voluntariness, freewill offering
Meaning: spontaneity, spontaneous, a spontaneous, abundant gift
Strong's Concordance
freewill offering, freely, plentiful, voluntary, offering, willingly, offering

From nadab; properly (abstractly) spontaneity, or (adjectively) spontaneous; also (concretely) a spontaneous or (by inference, in plural) abundant gift -- free(-will) offering, freely, plentiful, voluntary(-ily, offering), willing(-ly), offering).

see HEBREW nadab

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5071. nedabah

נְדָבָהnoun feminine voluntariness, freewill-offering; — absolute ׳נExodus 35:29 14t.; construct נִדְבַתDeuteronomy 16:10; plural נְדָבוֺתAmos 4:5; Psalm 68:10; נְדָבֹת110:3; construct נִדְבוֺת119:108; 2 Chronicles 31:14; suffix נִדְבֹתֶ֫יךָDeuteronomy 12:7 4t. suffixes; —

1voluntariness נְדָבָה אֹהֲבֵםHosea 14:5 I (׳י‎) will love them freely; חֵילֶ֑ךָ בְּיוֺם נְדָבֹת עַמְּךָPsalm 110:3 thy people will be (all) voluntariness in the day of thy host (be ready to volunteer, see BrMP 133); נדבות גֶּשֶׁם68:10 generous (copious) rain; בנדבה‎ Psalm 54:8 voluntarily, and adverb. accusative נדבהDeuteronomy 23:24 (see Dr.).

2 freewill, voluntary, offering:

a. including gifts used in erection and furnishing of tabernacle Exodus 35:29; 36:3 (P); for first temple 2 Chronicles 31:14, second Ezra 1:6; 8:28.

b. including עולה‎ and שׁלמים‎ Ezekiel 46:42; probably also Amos 4:5, פִי נדבותPsalm 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; 29:39 (P), Leviticus 22:18, 21, 23; 23:38 (H), Deuteronomy 12:6, 17. — (Verbs used are נ ׳הביאExodus 35:29; 36:3; נ ׳הקריבLeviticus 22:18; נ ׳עשׂהNumbers 15:3; Ezekiel 46:12; נ ׳נתןLeviticus 23:38; Deuteronomy 16:10.)