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# oblation

«oblation» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A gift or offering made to God, often of grain or food…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A gift or offering made to God, often of grain or food, brought to the altar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/oblation/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Isaiah says God does not want offerings that are brought by people who do wrong. Interpretation: Tradition reads this as meaning that sacrifices have no worth without justice and goodness, and that God wants good deeds first.

### examples

- Bring no more vain oblations; it is an offering of abomination unto Me; new moon and sabbath, the holding of convocations — I cannot endure iniquity along with the solemn assembly. (Prophets ISA.1.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/oblation/#x1)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «oblation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/oblation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.