burnt offering
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burnt offering
- /bɜːnt ˈɒfəɹɪŋ/ UK
- /bɝnt ˈɔfəɹɪŋ/ US
- /-ˈɑfəɹɪŋ/ US
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From Middle English brend offring, brend offringe, from brend (past participle of brennen (“to burn”)) + offring, offringe (“presentation of something as a religious offering; offering presented to God or another deity”), used in biblical texts to translate Late Latin holocaustum (“burnt offering wholly consumed by fire”) in the Vulgate version of the Bible. The English term is analysable as burnt + offering.
noun burnt offerings
- A slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin. […] Job ſent for them, and clenſed them agayne, ſtode vp early, and offred for eueryone a brẽtofferinge [brentofferinge].
- Any similar sacrifice to a deity or deities, or to a deceased person.
- Overcooked food that is nevertheless served. A cooler oven would give heavy, doughy loaves while a hotter oven would provide the family with the inevitable burnt offerings.
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noun slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin
| Русский | же́ртва всесожже́ния žértva vsesožžénija, о́ла óla |
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title = {burnt offering},
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