Definition of "heave-offering" [heave-offering]

• In the Levitical law, a voluntary offering which when presented before the Lord was ‘heaved’ or elevated by the priest, and became the portion of the priests and their families. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "If terumah [the heave-offering] is brought, he declares that it must be given to the priest."
• "I told him if the breakfast only to result in a heave-offering were omitted he would be better able for his duties of the forenoon."
• "If a case of mistaken identity should occur between the child of a priestess and the child of her female slave, so that the one cannot be distinguished from the other, they both are to eat of the heave-offering and to receive one share from the threshing-floor."