Meaning of burnt offering | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] Job ſent for them, and clenſed them agayne, ſtode vp early, and offred for eueryone a brẽtofferinge [brentofferinge].”

“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.”

“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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