thank offering
Gift expressing thanks
A thank offering is a gift or sacrifice given to express gratitude, especially to a deity.
The term appears most often in religious contexts—offerings made to God in acknowledgment of blessings received: The congregation brought thank offerings after the harvest.
More broadly, any gift given purely from gratitude rather than obligation.
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
- gratitudeThankfulness for kindness received
- altarSacred ritual table
- titheTenth for clergy
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
altar call · blessing · harvest · harvest festival · firstfruits · incense · temple · devotion · praise · oblation · gift · vow · burnt · grain · libation · consecration · atonement · ritual
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Sacrifice for wrongdoing
expiation · penance · petition · supplication · votive offering
thank offeringsin offering
Sacrifice for wrongdoing
desperate plea · lamentation · mourning ritual · supplication · curse
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