An interesting word

The grain offering (Leviticus 2) is interesting in that the word used in the Hebrew

has no connection to grain.

“Minchahs” were gifts people gave to higher-ups, like kings, often a tribute.

Abel’s sacrifice was a minchah to God,

yet if either of the rival brothers had grain in his offering, it would have been Cain.

The fat foreign king who ruled Israel for a time, received a minchah from Israel (Judges 3:15).

David, and Salomon, were given minchahs.

All of them grainless gifts, I have to suppose.

As time passed, the evening worship/prayer time became known as

the “the hour of minchah” (Ezra 9.5, amongst other places).

We see something similar in Acts 3.1, but of course, the word there is not in Hebrew.

I am not picking a fight with the translators.

The minchah explained in Lev 2 is definitely made with grain,

and a rose by any other name still smells sweet.

We see Jesus as the Minchah of all minchahs

when He, as the bread of life, chose death at Golgotha.