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Our Mishnah taught that any of the menachos is still valid if its kemitza was removed by a kohen who had in mind a different type of minchah, but it does not allow its owner to fulfill his obligation.
The exception to this rule is the minchah of a sinner (those enumerated in Vayikra 5:1-4) or the minchah of a sotah. In these two cases, the minchah is disqualified if the kemitzah was taken having in mind the wrong type of minchah.
In the Gemara, Rav adds that a minchah of the omer offering is also disqualified if it is brought having in mind the wrong minchah. The reason he gives is that the omer is specifically brought in order to permit the new grain for the entire nation, and because it fails in this regard, it is no longer valid as a minchah.
We continue our exploration of the hermeneutic distance the rabbis travelled between the plain biblical meaning (peshat) of the meal offering (minchah) and its radical reconfiguration in rabbinic literature. Through careful attention to the Talmudic discussion in our daf we trace how the rabbis transformed simple grain oblations into complex legal instruments governed by intention (lishmah), verbal analogy (gezerah shavah), and categorical assimilation.