Dictionary

burnt offering en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /bɜːnt ˈɒfəɹɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /bɝnt ˈɔfəɹɪŋ/ (General-American)
• (US) audio
• /-ˈɑfəɹɪŋ/ (General-American)

Etymology

PIE word *h₁epi 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.

Meanings

1. A slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin.
   • When they faſt I will not heare their crie, and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation I wil not accept them: but I will conſume them by the ſword, and by the famine, and by the peſtilence. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 14:12, column 2:
   • […] Job ſent for them, and clenſed them agayne, ſtode vp early, and offred for eueryone a brẽtofferinge [brentofferinge]. 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Job j:[5], folio i, recto, column 2:
2. (broadly) Any similar sacrifice to a deity or deities, or to a deceased person.
3. (humorous) 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. 1991, Sara Minwel Tibbott, Baking in Wales, page 21:

Forms

Translations (15)

grc θύος (slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin) · pl holokaust (slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin) · fi polttouhri (any similar sacrifice to a deity or deities, or to an deceased person) · got 𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌽𐍃𐍄𐍃 (slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin) · mk жр́тва за бого́вите (slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin) · ru же́ртва всесожже́ния (slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin) · pl całopalenie (slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin) · fi polttouhri (slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin) · grc ὁλοκαύτωμα (slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin) · pl ofiara całopalna (slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin) · is brennifórn (slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin) · ru о́ла (slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin) · pl holocaust (slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin) · nl brandoffer (slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin) · fi karrelle palanut ruoka ((humorous) overcooked food)

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