[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

offering \of"fering\, n.
   1. the act of an offerer; a proffering.
      1913 webster

   2. that which is offered, esp. in divine service; that which
      is presented as an expiation or atonement for sin, or as a
      free gift; a sacrifice; an oblation; as, sin offering.
      1913 webster

            they are polluted offerings more abhorred
            than spotted livers in the sacrifice. --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. a sum of money offered, as in church service; as, a
      missionary offering. specif.: ch. of eng. personal
      tithes payable according to custom, either at certain
      seasons as christmas or easter, or on certain occasions as
      marriages or christenings.
      1913 webster

            none to the offering before her should go.
                                                  --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   burnt offering, drink offering, etc. see under burnt.
      etc.
      1913 webster
see also:
burnt offering drink offering burnt 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

burnt \burnt\, p. p.  a.
   consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with
   fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.
   1913 webster

   burnt ear, a black, powdery fungus which destroys grain.
      see smut.

   burnt offering, something offered and burnt on an altar, as
      an atonement for sin; a sacrifice. the offerings of the
      jews were a clean animal, as an ox, a calf, a goat, or a
      sheep; or some vegetable substance, as bread, or ears of
      wheat or barley. called also burnt sacrifice. --2 sam.
      xxiv. 22.
      1913 webster
see also:
burnt ear smut burnt offering burnt sacrifice 

[3] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

burnt offering
   hebrew _olah_; i.e., "ascending," the whole being consumed by
   fire, and regarded as ascending to god while being consumed.
   part of every offering was burnt in the sacred fire, but this
   was wholly burnt, a "whole burnt offering." it was the most
   frequent form of sacrifice, and apparently the only one
   mentioned in the book of genesis. such were the sacrifices
   offered by abel gen. 4:3, 4, here called _minhah_; i.e., "a
   gift", noah gen. 8:20, abraham gen. 22:2, 7, 8, 13, and by
   the hebrews in egypt ex. 10:25.
   
     the law of moses afterwards prescribed the occasions and the
   manner in which burnt sacrifices were to be offered. there were
   "the continual burnt offering" ex. 29:38-42; lev. 6:9-13, "the
   burnt offering of every sabbath," which was double the daily one
   num. 28:9, 10, "the burnt offering of every month" 28:11-15,
   the offerings at the passover 19-23, at pentecost lev.
   23:16, the feast of trumpets 23:23-25, and on the day of
   atonement lev. 16.
   
     on other occasions special sacrifices were offered, as at the
   consecration of aaron ex. 29 and the dedication of the temple
   1 kings 8:5, 62-64.
   
     free-will burnt offerings were also permitted lev. 1:13, and
   were offered at the accession of solomon to the throne 1 chr.
   29:21, and at the reformation brought about by hezekiah 2 chr.
   29: 31-35.
   
     these offerings signified the complete dedication of the
   offerers unto god. this is referred to in rom. 12:1. see altar
   ¯t0000185, sacrifice.
   
see also:
sacrifice 

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