Burnt offering Meaning, Definition & Usage

Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913