different between offering vs corban

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??f????/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??f????/
• (Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /??f????/

Verb

offering

1. present participle of offer

Noun

offering (plural offerings)

1. The act by which something is offered.
2. That which has been offered; a sacrifice.
3. An oblation or presentation made as a religious act.
4. A contribution given at a religious service.
5. Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered.

Derived terms

• burnt offering
• peace offering

Related terms

• offer
• offertory
• oblate
• oblation

Translations

References

• offering in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• offering in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Alternative forms

• korban
• qorban

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (korbân), from Hebrew ????? \ ????????? (korbán, “offering, sacrifice”). Found in the Bible at Mark 7.11. Doublet of Qurbana.

Noun

corban (plural corbans or corbanot or corbanoth)

1. An offering to God, especially in fulfilment of a vow.
   • 1901, The Bible, American Standard Version, 7:11

     but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given [to God];

2. An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited.

Usage notes

• In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word is usually translated oblation, as in Numbers xviii. 9, xxxi. 50.
• The traditionists laid down that a man might interdict himself by vow, not only from using for himself, but from giving to another, or receiving from him, some particular object, whether of food or any other kind. A person might thus exempt himself from assisting parents in distress, under plea of corban.

Translations

Anagrams

• Branco, Carbon, bancor, barcon, carbon

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (korbân), from Hebrew ????????? (qorb?n, “offering, sacrifice”).

Noun

corb?n m (indeclinable)

1. gift, votive offering

References

• corban in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)