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title: אַזְכָּרָה — memorial-offering · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אַזְכָּרָה (234), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: memorial-offering. BDB 1906: n.f. memorial-offering. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אַזְכָּרָה

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«אַזְכָּרָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **memorial-offering** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 7 times · **Key:** 234 · **BDB:** אַזְכָּרָה²

### Glosses

offering (6); a.memorial.offering (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

memorial-offering [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/234/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. memorial-offering [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/234/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. memorial-offering, only P (an Aramaic inf. form; cf. BaNB 90 Sta§ 244)—abs. א׳ Lv 24:7; sf. אַזְכָּֽרָתָהּ Lv 2:2 + 5 times;—used of the frankincense burned for the shew-bread והיתה ללחם לאז׳ אִשֶּׁה לי׳ Lv 24:7; elsewhere always after הקטיר, only c. sf., referring to מִנְחָה Lv 2:2, 9, 16; 6:8 Nu 5:26; of the meal used as חַטָּאת by the very poor Lv 5:12; always connected with אִשֶּׁה, except Lv 6:8 Nu 5:26.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אַזְכָּרָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/234/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 24:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.24.7/)

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וְנָתַתָּ֥ עַל־הַֽמַּעֲרֶ֖כֶת לְבֹנָ֣ה זַכָּ֑ה וְהָיְתָ֤ה לַלֶּ֙חֶם֙ לְאַזְכָּרָ֔ה אִשֶּׁ֖ה לַֽיהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.put on the row frankincense pure and it.will.belong to the bread to a.memorial.offering a.fire.offering to Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt put pure frankincense with each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial-part, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

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[Leviticus 2:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.2.9/)

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וְהֵרִ֨ים הַכֹּהֵ֤ן מִן־הַמִּנְחָה֙ אֶת־אַזְכָּ֣רָתָ֔הּ וְהִקְטִ֖יר הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חָה אִשֵּׁ֛ה רֵ֥יחַ נִיחֹ֖חַ לַיהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.lift.up the priest from the.grain offering (et) offering its.memorial and he.will.make.\[it\].smoke to the altar a.fire.offering of.an.odor of.soothing to Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And the priest shall take off from the meal-offering the memorial-part thereof, and shall make it smoke upon the altar — an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

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