diff --git a/ggml/include/ggml.h b/ggml/include/ggml.h
index c2ccd97253..3e0a852a38 100644
--- a/ggml/include/ggml.h
+++ b/ggml/include/ggml.h
@@ -1981,6 +1981,13 @@ extern "C" {
             float                 beta_fast,
             float                 beta_slow);
 
+    // set the offset dims for RoPE
+    // a must be GGML_OP_ROPE or GGML_OP_ROPE_BACK
+    // example: (marking: x = rotated, 0 = unrotated)
+    //     n_embd = 10, n_dims = 4, offset = 2 --> [00xxxx0000]
+    GGML_API struct ggml_tensor * ggml_rope_set_offset(
+            struct ggml_tensor  * a,
+            int                   n_offs);
 
     // clamp
     // in-place, returns view(a)
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml.c b/ggml/src/ggml.c
index d0d369c417..2355a1cc37 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml.c
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml.c
@@ -4200,7 +4200,7 @@ static struct ggml_tensor * ggml_rope_impl(
 
     struct ggml_tensor * result = inplace ? ggml_view_tensor(ctx, a) : ggml_dup_tensor(ctx, a);
 
-    int32_t params[15] = { /*n_past*/ 0, n_dims, mode, /*n_ctx*/ 0, n_ctx_orig };
+    int32_t params[16] = { /*n_past*/ 0, n_dims, mode, /*n_ctx*/ 0, n_ctx_orig };
     memcpy(params +  5, &freq_base,    sizeof(float));
     memcpy(params +  6, &freq_scale,   sizeof(float));
     memcpy(params +  7, &ext_factor,   sizeof(float));
@@ -4212,6 +4212,8 @@ static struct ggml_tensor * ggml_rope_impl(
     } else {
         memset(params + 11, 0,         sizeof(int32_t) * GGML_MROPE_SECTIONS);
     }
+    params[15] = 0; // n_offs, set via ggml_rope_set_offset()
+
     ggml_set_op_params(result, params, sizeof(params));
 
     result->op     = GGML_OP_ROPE;
@@ -4422,6 +4424,15 @@ struct ggml_tensor * ggml_rope_multi_back(
     result->op = GGML_OP_ROPE_BACK;
     return result;
 }
+
+struct ggml_tensor * ggml_rope_set_offset(
+        struct ggml_tensor  * a,
+        int                   n_offs) {
+    GGML_ASSERT(a->op == GGML_OP_ROPE || a->op == GGML_OP_ROPE_BACK);
+    ggml_set_op_params_i32(a, 15, n_offs);
+    return a;
+}
+
 // ggml_clamp
 
 struct ggml_tensor * ggml_clamp(