(lit., "the elevated portion"): a portion to be separated from agricultural produce and given to the priests; this portion must be guarded from ritual impurity and eaten in a state of purity

an "Elevated-Offering," something that was previously fit for everyday use by anybody, and made holy, becoming part of Temple property

Terumah or Trumah (תרומה – Hebrew for "gift" or “offering,” the twelfth word and first distinctive word in the parshah) is the nineteenth weekly parshah or portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the seventh in the book of Exodus. It constitutes Exodus http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0225.htm 25:1–27:19. Jews in the Diaspora read it the nineteenth Sabbath after Simchat Torah, generally in February or early March.

the first of the tithes to be given to the Kohen

an offering set aside from crops; see Ch.28.