burnt offering
English
Noun
burnt offering (plural burnt offerings)
- (biblical, religion) A slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 14:12:
- When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
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- (by extension) Any sacrifice to a deity or deities, or to the deceased in such a way.
- (humorous) Overcooked food.
Translations
slaughtered animal burnt on an altar
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any sacrifice burnt on an altar
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