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Terumah is a Hebrew word, originally meaning lifted apart, but meaning donation in modern Hebrew. It can refer to:
- Heave offerings, a type of sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible
- Terumat hamaaser, a tithing obligation arising from the Terumah sacrifice still regarded as obligatory by Orthodox Judaism on produce
- Terumot, the plural of Terumah, and a section of the Mishnah concerning tithing obligations
- Terumah (parsha), the nineteenth weekly portion of the Torah. It primarily contains the instructions on how to create the Tabernacle
Terumah, Terumoh, Terimuh, or Trumah ( — Hebrew for "gift" or "offering," the twelfth word and first distinctive word in the parashah) is the nineteenth weekly Torah portion (, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the seventh in the Book of Exodus. It constitutes The parashah is made up of 4,692 Hebrew letters, 1,145 Hebrew words, and 96 verses, and can occupy about 155 lines in a Torah Scroll (, Sefer Torah). Jews in the Diaspora read it the nineteenth Sabbath after Simchat Torah, generally in February or, rarely, early March.
The parashah tells of God’s instructions to make the Tabernacle and its furnishings.