1. sacrifice, offering — A sacrifice or offering presented to God, encompassing both the act of sacrifice and the sacrificial victim itself; used in the NT for OT animal sacrifices, the sacrifice of Christ, and spiritual sacrifices of praise and service. Multilingual evidence consistently treats singular and plural as the same lexical concept: Spanish 'sacrificio/sacrificios', Hindi 'balidan/balidanon', Arabic 'dhabihatan/dhaba'iha', Korean 'jesareul/jesadeureul', Swahili 'dhabihu/sadaka'. The singular (N-AFS, N-NFS, N-DFS, N-GFS) and plural (N-GFP, N-AFP, N-NFP, N-DFP) forms represent grammatical number variation of one unified sense. 29×
AR["الذَّبائِحِ","ذَبيحَةً","ذَبيحَةِ","ذَبيحَتِهِ","ذَبَائِحَ","ذَبَائِحِهِمْ","ذَبِيحَة","ذَبِيحَةً","ذَبِيحَةٍ","قَرَابِينَ"]·ben["বলি","বলিদান","বলিদানে","বলিদানের","বলির"]·DE["Opfer"]·EN["a-sacrifice","sacrifice","sacrifices","to-offer"]·FR["sacrifice"]·heb["זְבָחִים","זִבְחֵיהֶם","זֶבַח","מִנְחוֹת","קָרְבָּן"]·HI["बलि","बलिदान","बलिदान,","बलिदानों","बलिदानों-से","भेंटें"]·ID["korban","korban,","korban-korban","korban-sembelihan","persembahan"]·IT["sacrificio"]·jav["korban","kurban","kurban,","kurban-kurban","kurban:"]·KO["제물-은","제물-을","제물들의","제물로","제사","제사-를","제사가","제사들보다","제사들을","제사로","제사를","제사와","희생-을","희생들-을"]·PT["sacrifício","sacrifícios"]·RU["жертв","жертва","жертвами","жертвою","жертву","жертвы","угодной"]·ES["sacrificio","sacrificios"]·SW["dhabihu","dhabihu,","dhabihu;","sadaka"]·TR["kurban","kurbaninda","kurbanları","kurbanların","kurbanlarının","kurbanı","ve"]·urd["قربانی","قربانی-سے","قربانیاں","قربانیوں","قربانیوں-سے","قُربانی-پر"]
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
θῠσί-α, Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, (θύω) properly burnt-offering, sacrifice, mostly in plural, variant in Refs 5th c.BC+; θυσίας ἔρδειν, ἐπιτελέειν, ἀνάγειν, Refs 5th c.BC+; θ. σωτηρίου, αἰνέσεως, τῆς τελειώσεως, LXX; of the gods, θυσίαν δέχεσθαι Refs 4th c.BC+ __2 mode of sacrifice, θ. ἡ αὐτὴ πᾶσι κατέστηκε Refs 5th c.BC+ __3 festival, at which sacrifices were offered, Refs 5th c.BC+; περὶ τῶν ἐν…