A LIFTING-OUT, contribution — rendered 'contribution' throughout this translation; from a root meaning to lift or raise; not a physical hoisting so much as a portion formally SET ASIDE, singled out from a larger whole for a specific recipient. First named for the freewill materials Israel gives to build the tabernacle itself — 'that they take for me a terumah' (Exodus 25:2, already on these pages) — every household's gift lifted out of ordinary use and set toward something holy. The word narrows to a specific ritual gesture at the ordination ceremony, where the ram's own thigh is lifted out for the priests specifically (Exodus 29:27-28, already on these pages), paired there with tenufah, 'waving' — two distinct priestly gestures for two distinct portions, the breast waved and the thigh lifted out. ⚠ Leviticus 7:32-34 makes this the ordinary, permanent rule for every peace-offering afterward, not a one-time ordination gift: the right thigh always belongs to the officiating priest, 'a due forever.' ⚠ Numbers 18 is the root's densest chapter — fifteen occurrences of the noun and its verb — and it arrives one chapter after Numbers 17:2 used the same verb rum of lifting the dead rebels' censers out of the fire: the priests' income and the salvage of a catastrophe are named by one motion. That chapter also adds a second storey — the Levites must lift a terumah out of the tithe they were themselves given, a tithe of the tithe (18:26). → first discussed at Exod 25:2