Heave offering

Hebrews terumah, (Exodus 29:27) means simply an offering, a present, including all the offerings made by the Israelites as a present. This Hebrew word is frequently employed. Some of the rabbis attach to the word the meaning of elevation, and refer it to the heave offering, which consisted in presenting the offering by a motion up and down, distinguished from the wave offering, which consisted in a repeated movement in a horizontal direction, a "wave offering to the Lord as ruler of earth, a heave offering to the Lord as ruler of heaven." The right shoulder, which fell to the priests in presenting thank offerings, was called the heave shoulder (Leviticus 7:34; Numbers 6:20). The first fruits offered in harvest-time (Numbers 15:20, 21) were heave offerings.

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (v. t.) To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land.

2. (v. t.) To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log.

3. (v. t.) To force from, or into, any position; to cause to move; also, to throw off; -- mostly used in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the ship ahead.

4. (v. t.) To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh.

5. (v. t.) To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom.

6. (v. i.) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.

7. (v. i.) To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle.

8. (v. i.) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.

9. (v. i.) To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit.

10. (n.) An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.

11. (n.) An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, and the like.

12. (n.) A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.