单词 | meal offering |
释义 | meal offeringn. historical. With reference to ancient Israel: an offering of cereal, esp. flour, as opposed to an animal sacrifice. Cf. manna n.2 ΚΠ 1714 J. Johnson Unbloody Sacrifice ii. 327 The Meal or Bread-offering was presented to God by the Priest. 1740 S. Shuckford Hist. World (ed. 2) III. Pref. p. vi Upon that fiftieth Day they were to offer the two Wave-Loaves and their New Meal-Offering. 1818 Jewish Expositor Mar. 83/1 The victims provided were to be sacrificed severally..; to which was to be added a meal-offering, or the offering of flour. 1891 Democratic Standard (Coshocton, Ohio) 24 Apr. 2/1 Leaven is everywhere in Scripture a symbol of evil. With the meal offering there was to be neither leaven nor honey. 1946 Denton (Maryland) Jrnl. 1 Feb. 6/1 Fifty days after the feast of firstfruits came a new meal offering; two wave loaves are presented before the Lord. 1971 Jrnl. Amer. Acad. Relig. 39 145 The inexpensive meal-offering is for all practical purposes the sacrifice of the poor. 2008 A. Kurzweil Torah for Dummies vi. 103 Symbolically, the meal offering expressed the fact that the true source and sustainer of all life is God. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1714 |
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