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Definition of "meat-offering" [meat-offering]

  • A Jewish sacrificial offering, constituting a part of the daily service of the altar or of special services, consisting of fine flour either raw or baked without leaven but with salt, or of dried or parched and pounded corn of the first-fruits, etc., with fine oil and frankincense. See Lev. ii. and vi. 14-23, etc. In the revised version rendered meal-offering. (noun)

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Use "meat-offering" in a sentence
  • "These were all to be dedicated to him, every one in his way whereof he was capable; -- clean beasts by sacrifice; men by redemption; corn and wine by a meat-offering: but God retained all the first-fruits to himself."
  • "Divine Institution, and because God received them at the hands of men as incense whose odour was fragrant and agreeable, from these circumstances the offenders conceived the hope of obtaining favour and pardon, reasoning thus within themselves, as did Sampson's mother: "If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received burnt-offering and a meat-offering at our hands.""
  • "[66] Every meat-offering was accompanied by a drink-offering of wine, which was poured at the base of the altar."