Bible Dictionary
Oblation
Oboth was a desert encampment of Israel during the wilderness journey, near the borders of Moab and probably south of the Dead Sea.
Definition
An oblation is an offering or gift dedicated to God. In the Law, the term can refer generally to offerings and, in particular contexts, to heave offerings or grain offerings.
Biblical Usage
Oblation translates several Hebrew terms used for offerings, including the general term qorban, terumah for a heave offering, and minchah for a gift or grain offering. It belongs to the language of worship and dedication to God.
Historical Background
The King James Version sometimes uses “oblation” where the Revised Version consistently uses that term in Leviticus and Numbers. In other passages the same word may be rendered offering, heave offering, gift, or grain offering.
Historical Bible Dictionaries
Smith's Bible Dictionary
[Sacrifice]
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>ob-la'-shun: In Leviticus and Numbers, the King James Version occasionally uses "oblation," but generally "offering," as a rendering of qorban--a general term for all kinds of offering, but used only in Ezekiel, Leviticus and Numbers. the Revised Version (British and American) renders consistently "oblation." In Ezekiel (also Isa 40:20), "oblation" renders terumah, generally translated "heave offering." In some cases (e.g. Isa 1:13; Da 9:21) "oblation" in the King James Version corresponds to minchah, the ordinary word for "gift," in the Priestly Code (P) "grain offering."</p><p>See SACRIFICE.</p>