offer
part of speech
verb (offer, offers, offered, offering); noun (an offer, offers)
meaning for a pupil
1) To offer is to say you will give something to someone, or to hold it out for them to take. tree →
2) To offer to do something is to say you are willing to do it. tree →
3) An offer is a deal, like a lower price: a special offer. tree →
4) An offer is also the thing or money someone says they will give. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: To offer means to bring a gift or sacrifice to God at the altar, usually by the priests following the law. Interpretation: Tradition teaches that offerings were to be brought in the right way and place, and Nadab and Abihu died because they brought a "strange fire" that was not commanded. In the primary lessons: In maths: a giving action, or a sale price: «special offer», «buy 2, get 1 free»; work out the real cost per item. In everyday life: offering a seat on the bus, offering help, shop deals. In stories: a kind offer, or a stranger's offer that is a trick. Safety: be careful of offers that seem too good to be true.
examples
- And the burnt-offering was presented; and he offered it according to the ordinance. (Torah LEV.9.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD. (Torah NUM.26.61, JPS 1917) tree →
- On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer: (Torah NUM.7.18, JPS 1917) tree →
- Ye offer polluted bread upon Mine altar. (Prophets MAL.1.7, JPS 1917) tree →
- And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt-offerings. (Prophets 2KI.10.24, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt-offering upon the altar. (Writings 2CH.29.27, JPS 1917) tree →
- She offered 3 cookies to each friend. tree →
- The shop has an offer: 2 for 5 dollars. tree →
- He offered to pay half. tree →
- On offer, pens are 1 dollar each. tree →
- He offered his seat to an older lady. tree →
- Thank you for the offer, but I am full. tree →
- Never accept an offer of a ride from a stranger. tree →
- The special offer ends on Sunday. tree →
- The library offers free reading clubs. tree →
- One of them offered him an Alpine rose. tree →
note
Offering things away means take away. A shop offer gives a new price or deal; work out the cost from it. Trap: an offer that is refused does not change the amounts. Past: offered (one «r»). «Buy 2, get 1 free» means you pay for 2 and get 3. Safety: offers that are too good to be true are often scams.
In the corpora
- And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son.
- Thou shalt not delay to offer of the fulness of thy harvest, and of the outflow of thy presses.
- Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar: two lambs of the first year day by day continually.
- The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at dusk.
- And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof: the fat tail, and the fat that covereth the inwards,
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «offer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.