What is "burnt offering"

Offering \Of"fer*ing\, n.

1. The act of an offerer; a proffering.

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.

   They are polluted offerings more abhorred Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.
   --Shak.

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.

   [None] to the offering before her should go.
   --Chaucer.

   Burnt offering, Drink offering, etc. See under Burnt. etc.

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.

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.]

n. 1 A slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin; a sacrifice. 2 (context humorous English) overcooked food.

Burnt offering or holocaust is a Hellenic form of animal sacrifice in which the entire animal is completely consumed by fire.

Burnt offering or Burnt Offering(s) may also refer to:

• Burnt offering (Judaism) or Korban Olah, a twice-daily animal sacrifice that was offered at the former temple in Jerusalem
• Burnt Offering (novel) a 1929 novel by Jeanne Galzy
• Burnt Offerings (novel), a 1998 novel by Laurell K. Hamilton
• Burnt Offerings (film), a 1976 horror film starring Karen Black
• Burnt Offerings (album), a 1995 album by Iced Earth, and its title song
• "Burnt Offerings", a 1987 song by Testament from The Legacy
• "Burnt Offerings" or "Set The World Afire", a 1988 song by Megadeth from So Far, So Good... So What!

A burnt offering in Judaism (, korban olah), is a form of sacrifice first described in the Hebrew Bible. The term is first used of the sacrifices of Noah. As a tribute to God, a burnt offering was entirely burnt on the altar. A sacrifice (short for sacrifice of well-being) was partly burnt and most of it eaten in communion at a sacrificial meal.

During the First Temple and Second Temple periods, the burnt offering was a twice-daily animal sacrifice offered on the altar in the temple in Jerusalem that was completely consumed by fire. The skin of the animal, however, was not burnt but given to the priests respective of their priestly division. These skins are listed as one of the twenty-four priestly gifts in Tosefta Hallah.

Burnt Offering (French: L'initiatrice aux mains vides) is a French novel by Jeanne Galzy. Published in French in 1929, it won the 1930 Prix Brentano and was subsequently published in English, as the only one of the author's many novels.

While the novel (and the translation) received some praise in 1930 and 1931, it was never a great success, though it is now appreciated by critics for its study of the main character, Marie, a school teacher struggling with her (lesbian) desire for one of her students. Autobiographical elements permeating the novel have also been studied; these include the novel's perspective on the school where Marie and her author both worked, the Lycée Lamartine in Paris; and the college where they both received their education, the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles in Sèvres.