burnt offering

Significado (Inglés)

  1. A slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin.
  2. (broadly) Any similar sacrifice to a deity or deities, or to a deceased person.
  3. (humorous) Overcooked food.

Conceptos

Sinónimos

Traducciones

offerta bruciata

holocaustum

Opfergabe

Feueropfer

Pronunciado como (IPA)
/bɜːnt ˈɒfəɹɪŋ/
Etimología (Inglés)

In summary

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.

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