Bible word study

Nedabah (Strong’s H5071): Meaning in the Bible

Nedabah (נְדָבָה) is the Hebrew word numbered H5071 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly (abstractly) spontaneity, or (adjectively) spontaneous; also (concretely) a spontaneous or (by inference, in plural) abundant gift. In the King James Bible it is translated free(-will) offering, freely, plentiful, voluntary(-ily, offering).

• Original wordנְדָבָה
• Transliterationnᵉdâbâh
• Pronunciationned-aw-baw'
• Part of speechnoun (feminine) (n-f)
• Strong’s numberH5071
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H5068;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Nedabah appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Nedabah (H5071) stands behind 26 English renderings in 25 verses across 10 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Leviticus (5), Deuteronomy (4), Psalms (4).

How the King James Bible renders Nedabah, by count

• offering10 of 26 (38 percent)
• offerings9 of 26 (35 percent)
• freely2 of 26 (8 percent)
• plentiful1 of 26 (4 percent)
• voluntarily1 of 26 (4 percent)
• voluntary1 of 26 (4 percent)

Three places to read Nedabah

• Exodus 35:29 The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.
• Numbers 29:39 These things ye shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.
• Ezra 3:5 And afterward offered the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill offering unto the LORD.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Nedabah in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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