minḥah (מִנְחָה)
- Language: Hebrew
- Romanized: minḥah
- Original script: מִנְחָה
- Gloss: gift, tribute, grain offering
The cultic grain vocabulary in The Cultic Vocabulary. The same word names a gift between persons and a grain offering presented to God, binding bread to the language of tribute and altar.
Concordance Aid
Reading Note
Example passages: Genesis 4:3-5; Leviticus 2; 1 Samuel 2:17; Malachi 1:10-11.
Minḥah lets grain pass from field and kitchen into the language of gift. The word helps the reader see that food can become tribute, offering, and worship without becoming a modern nutritional claim.
Translation Range
Gift, tribute, offering, grain offering, present.
Not To Be Confused With
Minḥah is not simply “bread.” It belongs to the vocabulary of gift and offering, often involving grain but not reducible to ordinary eating.
Related entries
- Lehem — bread
- Prosphora — Greek offering loaves
- Eucharisteo — to give thanks