thanksgiving sacrifice / thank offering
- thanksgiving sacrifice / thank offering
thanksgiving sacrifice (NRSV) / thank offering (REB)
An animal sacrifice offered in gratitude for some favour received; the meat was shared between the donor and the priest, who had laid his hand on the victim's head. They ate round the
altar at a kind of
communion meal (hence
NJB ‘communion sacrifice’ at
Lev. 7:13) which included unleavened cakes (
Lev. 7:12). In
Judaism a thanksgiving (
berakah) was offered at meals, and Jesus followed this practice at the
Lord's Supper. He gave thanks (Greek,
eucharistesas,
1 Cor. 11:24), which became a technical term by the 2nd cent. for the
Breaking of Bread [[➝ breaking of bread]].
Dictionary of the Bible.
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