Strong's Concordance
holokautóma: a whole burnt offering
Original Word: ὁλοκαύτωμα, ατος, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: holokautóma
Phonetic Spelling: (hol-ok-ow'-to-mah)
Short Definition: a whole burnt offering
Definition: a whole burnt offering.
HELPS Word-studies
3646 holokaútōma (literally, "an offering that is completely burned up") – a whole burnt-offering. 3646 (holokaútōma) is used three times in the NT, each time for a "whole burnt offering," i.e. a sacrifice burned in its entirety. Compare Lev 5:12, 23:8 with Mk 12:33; Heb 10:6,8 (see also OT 5930).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3646: ὁλοκαύτωμαὁλοκαύτωμα,
ὁλοκαυτώματος,
τό (
ὀλοκαυτόω to burn whole,
Xenophon, Cyril 8, 3, 24;
Josephus, Antiquities 1, 13, 1; and this from
ὅλος and
καὐτός, for
καυστός, verbal adjective from
καίω, cf.
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 524; (
Winers Grammar, 33)),
a whole burnt offering (Latin
holocaustum), i. e. a victim the whole (and not like other victims only a part) of which is burned:
Mark 12:33;
Hebrews 10:6, 8. (The
Sept. especially for
עֹלָה; also for
אִשֶּׁה,
Exodus 30:20;
Leviticus 5:12;
Leviticus 23:8, 25, 21; 1 Macc. 1:45; 2 Macc. 2:10; not found in secular authors (except
Philo do sacr. Ab. et Cain. § 33);
Josephus, Antiquities 3, 9, 1 and 9, 7, 4 says
ὁλοκαύτωσις.)
