[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/offer/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [O](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/o/) / offer # offer verb (offer, offers, offered, offering); noun (an offer, offers) «offer» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. To offer is to say you will give something to someone, or to hold it out for them to take. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offer/#m1) 2. To offer to do something is to say you are willing to do it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offer/#m2) 3. An offer is a deal, like a lower price: a special offer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offer/#m3) 4. An offer is also the thing or money someone says they will give. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offer/#m4) ### In the 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 - She offered 3 cookies to each friend. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offer/#x1) - The shop has an offer: 2 for 5 dollars. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offer/#x2) - He offered to pay half. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offer/#x3) - On offer, pens are 1 dollar each. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offer/#x4) - He offered his seat to an older lady. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offer/#x5) - Thank you for the offer, but I am full. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offer/#x6) - Never accept an offer of a ride from a stranger. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offer/#x7) - The special offer ends on Sunday. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offer/#x8) - The library offers free reading clubs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offer/#x9) - One of them offered him an Alpine rose. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offer/#x10) ### 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 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. ### Examples - And the burnt-offering was presented; and he offered it according to the ordinance. (Torah LEV.9.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offer/#x1) - And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD. (Torah NUM.26.61, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offer/#x2) - On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer: (Torah NUM.7.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offer/#x3) - Ye offer polluted bread upon Mine altar. (Prophets MAL.1.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offer/#x4) - And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt-offerings. (Prophets 2KI.10.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offer/#x5) - And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt-offering upon the altar. (Writings 2CH.29.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offer/#x6) ### 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. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «offer» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offer/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«offer» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/offer.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «offer» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offer/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«offer» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/offer.html) on Mova free.