English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "opoffering" hou verband met of behels opoffering, veral die offer van iets kosbaars of waardevol aan 'n godheid of vir 'n saak. Dit kan ook verwys na iets wat gedoen of prysgegee word tot voordeel van ander of vir 'n hoër doel, dikwels teen persoonlike koste of onkoste. Daarbenewens kan die term ook gebruik word om iets te beskryf wat bedoel is om vir 'n spesifieke doel of funksie gebruik te word, en daar word dus nie verwag om vir 'n lang tyd te hou nie.

Sentence Examples

  1. Alas, and nobody showed this way, nobody knew it, not the father, and not the teachers and wise men, not the holy sacrificial songs!
  2. Inside the temple, they shoved him forward, past a sacrificial altar, and into dark recesses normally reserved for priestesses.
  3. Too much knowledge had held him back, too many holy verses, too many sacrificial rules, to much self-castigation, so much doing and striving for that goal!
  4. This was no monument or sacrificial placeholder this was a forge!