burnt offering

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English

WOTD – 23 June 2023

Etymology

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A 1500–1520 painting of a biblical scene of a burnt offering (sense 1), perhaps depicting Samuel (1 Samuel 7:9), David (2 Samuel 24:25), or Solomon (1 Kings 8:64).
A burnt offering (sense 2) of paper money at Wenshu Temple in Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
A burnt slice of pizza. Overcooked food is sometimes humorously referred to as a “burnt offering” (sense 3).

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.

Pronunciation

Noun

burnt offering (plural burnt offerings)

  2. (biblical) A slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin.
  4. (religion, by extension) Any similar sacrifice to a deity or deities, or to a deceased person.
  6. (humorous) Overcooked food.
    • 1991, Sara Minwel Tibbott, Baking in Wales, page 21:
      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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References

  1. ^ “burnt offering, n.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, reproduced from Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN.
  2. ^ “brend offering” under “brennen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  3. ^ “offring(e, ger.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  4. ^ “burnt offering, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2022.

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