burnt offerings
Incinerated ritual gifts
Burnt offerings are sacrifices, typically animals, that are completely consumed by fire as part of religious worship.
The practice appears prominently in the Hebrew Bible, where burning the entire offering signified total dedication to God.
In modern usage, burnt offerings often appears humorously to describe badly overcooked food: Sorry about dinner—I'm afraid we're having burnt offerings tonight.
Giving up something precious
- altarSacred ritual table
- pyreFuneral burning heap
- immolationSacrificial killing, often burning
- hecatombGreat public sacrifice
oblation · libation · incense · ceremony · procession · consecration · offertory · priest
Redress for offense
- propitiationAct of placating deity
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
- penanceSelf-mortification for wrongdoing
- contritionRemorseful state over misdeeds
reparation · absolution · forgiveness · purification · repentance · cleansing · reconciliation · penitent
Giving up something precious
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
- pietySincere religious devotion
- venerationProfound admiring respect
- adorationProfound loving regard
reverence · devotion · sanctity · faith · deity · divinity · spirituality · offering
Combustion's powdery remains
- embersSmoldering fire remnants
- cindersPartly burned coal pieces
- sootCarbon from incomplete burning
- smolderingBurning slowly, no flame
Burned until black
- blackenedDarkened by burning
- overcookedHeated beyond optimal
- inedibleUnfit for consumption
- ruinedDamaged beyond recovery
smoky · crispy · scorched · carbonized · cremated
sacrifice
Giving up something precious
- altarSacred ritual table
- pyreFuneral burning heap
- immolationSacrificial killing, often burning
hecatomb · oblation · libation · incense · ceremony · procession · consecration · offertory · priest · priesthood
expiation
Redress for offense
- propitiationAct of placating deity
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
- penanceSelf-mortification for wrongdoing
contrition · reparation · absolution · forgiveness · purification · repentance · cleansing · reconciliation · penitent · sinner
sacrifice
Giving up something precious
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
- pietySincere religious devotion
- venerationProfound admiring respect
adoration · reverence · devotion · sanctity · faith · deity · divinity · spirituality · offering · thanksgiving
ash
Combustion's powdery remains
smoldering · fumes · haze · smoky · charred · carbon · cremation
charred
Burned until black
- blackenedDarkened by burning
- overcookedHeated beyond optimal
- inedibleUnfit for consumption
- burntcharred, scorched, singed, blackened, char
- ancient ritesritual sacrifice, human sacrifice, animal sacrifice, blood sacrifice, fertility rite
- Biblical Ritualsaltar offering, drink offering, thank offering, temple worship, priestly blessing
- Mosaic lawMoses, Mosaic law, Ten Commandments, tablets of stone, commandment
- offeringsaltar offerings, sin offering, peace offering, oblations, food offerings
- ritual foodscommunion wafer, communion wine, communion wafers, sacramental wine, seder
burnt offeringspeace offerings
Gifts meant to reconcile
communion meal · votive offerings · sin offerings · firstfruits · tithes
burnt offeringsalms
Gifts to the destitute
tribute · barter · commercial transactions · charity · charitable donations
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