offer

Everyday

1. To offer is to say you will give something to someone, or to hold it out for them to take. tree →
2. To offer to do something is to say you are willing to do it. tree →
3. An offer is a deal, like a lower price: a special offer. tree →
4. An offer is also the thing or money someone says they will give. tree →

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 →
• The shop has an offer: 2 for 5 dollars. tree →
• He offered to pay half. tree →
• On offer, pens are 1 dollar each. tree →
• He offered his seat to an older lady. tree →
• Thank you for the offer, but I am full. tree →
• Never accept an offer of a ride from a stranger. tree →
• The special offer ends on Sunday. tree →
• The library offers free reading clubs. tree →
• One of them offered him an Alpine rose. tree →

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 →
• And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD. (Torah NUM.26.61, JPS 1917) tree →
• On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer: (Torah NUM.7.18, JPS 1917) tree →
• Ye offer polluted bread upon Mine altar. (Prophets MAL.1.7, JPS 1917) tree →
• And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt-offerings. (Prophets 2KI.10.24, JPS 1917) tree →
• And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt-offering upon the altar. (Writings 2CH.29.27, JPS 1917) tree →

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.