burnt offering

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• Received-Pronunciation: /bɜːnt ˈɒfəɹɪŋ/
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• General-American: /bɝnt ˈɔfəɹɪŋ/
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• General-American: /-ˈɑfəɹɪŋ/
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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.

15 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Dutch: brandoffer — slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin
• Finnish: polttouhri — slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌽𐍃𐍄𐍃 (alabrunsts) — slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin
• Ancient Greek: ὁλοκαύτωμα (holokaútōma) — slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin
• Ancient Greek: θύος (thúos) — slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin
• Icelandic: brennifórn — slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin
• Macedonian: жр́тва за бого́вите (žŕtva za bogóvite) — slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin
• Polish: ofiara całopalna — slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin
• Polish: całopalenie — slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin
• Polish: holocaust — slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin
• Polish: holokaust — slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin
• Russian: же́ртва всесожже́ния (žértva vsesožžénija) — slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin
• Russian: о́ла (óla) — slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin
• Finnish: polttouhri — any similar sacrifice to a deity or deities, or to an deceased person
• Finnish: karrelle palanut ruoka — (humorous) overcooked food