Heave offering @ Heb. 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.
HEAVEN @ - There are four Hebrew words thus rendered in the Old Testament which we may briefly notice. Raki’a , Authorized Version, firmament. [FIRMAMENT] Shamayim . This is the word used in the expression "the heaven and the earth," or "the upper and lower regions." Genesis:1:1) Marom , used for heaven in Psalms:18:16; Isaiah:24:18; Jeremiah:25:30). Properly speaking it means a mountain as in Psalms:102:19; Ezekiel:17:23) Shechakim , "expanses," with reference to the extent of heaven. (33:26; Job:35:5) St. Paul’s expression "third heaven," ( 2Corinthians:12:2) had led to much conjecture. Grotius said that the Jews divided the heaven into three parts, viz., The air or atmosphere, where clouds gather; The firmament, in which the sun, moon and stars are fixed; The upper heaven, the abode of God and his angels, the invisible realm of holiness and happiness the home of the children of God.
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