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2435 – ἱλαστήριον (hilasterion)

propitiation


Type:
Noun
neut. ♁
Greek: ἱλαστήριον (hilasterion)
Pronunciation: hil-as-tay-ree-on
Gematria: 779(10 + 30 + 1 + 200 + 300 + 8 + 100 + 10 + 70 + 50)    words with the same gematria
Origin: From a derivative of G2433
Usage: 2 times in NT

Description

  1. Relating to an appeasing or expiating, having placating or expiating force, expiatory; a means of appeasing or expiating, a propitiation.
    1. Used of the cover of the ark of the covenant in the Holy of Holies, which was sprinkled with the blood of the expiatory victim on the annual day of atonement (this rite signifying that the life of the people, the loss of which they had merited by their sins, was offered to God in the blood as the life of the victim, and that God by this ceremony was appeased and their sins expiated); hence the lid of expiation, the propitiatory.
    2. An expiatory sacrifice.
    3. A expiatory victim.


Origin

From a derivative of G2433:

ἱλάσκομαιhilaskomaiG2433be merciful

Equivalent Hebrew/Aramaic words

In the Greek Septuagint (LXX) translation, the following Hebrew/Aramaic words have been translated into hilasterion :

כַּפֹּרֶתkapporetH3727mercy seat
עֲזָרָהazarahH5835enclosure

Alternative forms

Grammatical code shortcode Swedish Quantity
Adjective Adjective
acc. sing. neut. accusative singular Neutral
A-ASN-2


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Usage in NT


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References (2 occurances in 2 verses)




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