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ˈsin-ˌoffering
[f. sin n. 6, prob. after G. sündopfer, used by Luther to render Heb. ḥattāth, f. ḥātā' to sin.]
In the older Jewish religion, an offering (of an animal for sacrifice) made as an atonement for sin. Also transf.
See especially Lev. iv and vi. The distinction between sin-offering and trespass-offering has been the subject of much controversy.
1535Coverdale Lev. iv. 3 He shall brynge..a yonge bullocke..for a synofferynge. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxviii. §1 With what sinne-offering once euery yeere they reconciled..the people vnto God. 1643J. Caryl Expos. Job i. 5–6 Of other Sacrifices, as the Sin-offering,..there were parts..reserved for the Priest. 1786A. Maclean Chr. Commiss. i. (1846) 39 The sin-offering or sacrifice of expiation. 1819Scott Ivanhoe xxxvi, The death of a Jewess will be a sin-offering sufficient to atone for all the amorous indulgences of the Knights Templars. 1865R. W. Dale Jew. Temp. xvii. (1877) 187 In the sin-offering the idea of atonement was supreme. |