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Lexicon :: Strong's G2435 - hilastērion

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ἱλαστήριον
Transliteration
hilastērion (Key)
Pronunciation
hil-as-tay'-ree-on
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From a derivative of ἱλάσκομαι (G2433)
mGNT
2x in 1 unique form(s) TR
2x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
27x in 3 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:318,362

Strong’s Definitions

†ἱλαστήριον hilastḗrion, hil-as-tay'-ree-on; neuter of a derivative of G2433; an expiatory (place or thing), i.e. (concretely) an atoning victim, or (specially) the lid of the Ark (in the Temple):—mercyseat, propitiation.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G2435 in the following manner: propitiation (1x), mercyseat (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G2435 in the following manner: propitiation (1x), mercyseat (1x).

  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

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†ἱλαστήριον hilastḗrion, hil-as-tay'-ree-on; neuter of a derivative of G2433; an expiatory (place or thing), i.e. (concretely) an atoning victim, or (specially) the lid of the Ark (in the Temple):—mercyseat, propitiation.
STRONGS G2435:
ἱλαστήριος, ἱλαστηρια, ἱλαστήριον (ἱλάσκομαι, which see), relating to appeasing or expiating, having placating or expiating force, expiatory: μνῆμα ἱλαστήριον, a monument built to propitiate God, Josephus, Antiquities 16, 7, 1; ἱλαστήριος θάνατος, 4 Macc. 17:22; χεῖρας ἱκετηριους, εἰ βούλει δέ ἱλαστηριους, ἐκτείνας Θεῷ, Niceph. in act. SS. edition Mai, vol. v., p. 335, 17. Neuter τό ἱλαστήριον, as a substantive, a means of appeasing or expiating, a propitiation (German Versöhnungs- oderSühnmittel); cf. Winer's Grammar, 96 (91); (592 (551)). So used of:
1. the well-known 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 were expiated); hence, the lid of expiation, the propitiatory, Vulg.propitiatorium; Luth.Gnadensruhl (A. V. mercy-seat): Hebrews 9:5 (the Sept. Exodus 25:18ff; Leviticus 16:2, etc.; more fully ἱλαστήριον ἐπίθεμα, Exodus 25:17; Exodus 38:7 (Exodus 37:6), for the Hebrew כַּפֹּרֶת, from כִּפֶּר to cover, namely, sins, i. e. to pardon). Theodoret, Theophylact, Oecumenius, Luther, Grotius, Tholuck, Wilke, Philippi, Umbreit (Cremer (4te Aufl.)) and others give this meaning to the word also in Romans 3:25, viz. that Christ, besprinkled with his own blood, was truly that which the cover or 'mercy-seat' had been typically, i. e., the sign and pledge of expiation; but in opposed to this interpretation see Fritzsche, Meyer, Van Hengel (Godet, Oltramare) and others at the passage
2. an expiatory sacrifice; a piacular victim (Vulg.propitiatio): Romans 3:25 (after the analogy of the words χαριστηρια sacrifices expressive of gratitude, thank-offerings, σωτηρία sacrifices for safety obtained. On the other hand, in Dio Chrysostom or. 11, 121, p. 355, Reiske edition, the reference is not to a sacrifice but to a monument, as the preceding words show: καταλείψειν γάρ αὐτούς ἀνάθημα κάλλιστον καί μέγιστον τῇ Ἀθηνα καί ἐπιγράψειν, ἱλαστήριον Ἀχαιοι τῇ Ἰλιαδι). (See the full discussion of the word in Dr. Jets. Morison, Critical Exposition of the Third Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, pp. 281-303.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Exodus
25:17; 25:18; 37:6; 38:7
Leviticus
16:2
Romans
3:25; 3:25
Hebrews
9:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2435 matches the Greek ἱλαστήριον (hilastērion),
which occurs 27 times in 20 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:17 - And thou shalt make a propitiatory, a lid of pure gold; the length of two cubits and a half, and the breadth of a cubit and a half.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:18 - And thou shalt make two cherubs graven in gold, and thou shalt put them on both sides of the propitiatory.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:19 - They shall be made, one cherub on this side, and another cherub on the other side of the propitiatory; and thou shalt make the two cherubs on the two sides.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:20 - The cherubs shall stretch forth their wings above, overshadowing the propitiatory with their wings; and their faces shall be toward each other, the faces of the cherubs shall be toward the propitiatory.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:21 - And thou shalt set the propitiatory on the ark above, and thou shalt put into the ark the testimonies which I shall give thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:22 - And I will make myself known to thee from thence, and I will speak to thee above the propitiatory between the two cherubs, which are upon the ark of testimony, even in all things which I shall charge thee concerning the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:7 - the tabernacle of witness, and the ark of the covenant, and the propitiatory that is upon it, and the furniture of the tabernacle,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:12 - and the ark of the testimony, and its staves, and its propitiatory, and the veil,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:6 - (LXX 38:5) And he made the propitiatory over the ark of pure gold,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:8 - (LXX 38:7) one cherub on the one end of the propitiatory, and another cherub on the other end of the propitiatory,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:9 - (LXX 38:8) overshadowing the propitiatory with their wings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:2 - And the Lord said to Moses, Speak to Aaron thy brother, and let him not come in at all times into the holy place within the veil before the propitiatory, which is upon the ark of the testimony, and he shall not die; for I will appear in a cloud on the propitiatory.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:13 - And he shall put the incense on the fire before the Lord, and the smoke of the incense shall cover the mercy-seat over the tables of testimony, and he shall not die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:14 - And he shall take of the blood of the calf, and sprinkle with his finger on the mercy-seat eastward: before the mercy-seat shall he sprinkle seven times of the blood with his finger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:15 - And he shall kill the goat for the sin-offering that is for the people, before the Lord; and he shall bring in of its blood within the veil, and shall do with its blood as he did with the blood of the calf, and shall sprinkle its blood on the mercy-seat, in front of the mercy-seat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:89

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:89 - When Moses went into the tabernacle of witness to speak to [fn]God, then he heard the voice of the Lord speaking to him from off the mercy-seat, which is upon the ark of the testimony, between the two cherubs; and he spoke to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:14 - from the bottom at the commencement of the hollow part to this great mercy-seat, from beneath was two cubits, and the breadth was a cubit; and from the little mercy-seat to the great mercy-seat, four cubits, and the breadth was a cubit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:17 - And the mercy-seat shall be fourteen cubits in length, by fourteen cubits in breadth on its four sides; and there shall be a border to it carried round about it of half a cubit; and the rim of it shall be a cubit round about; and the steps thereof looking eastward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:20 - And they shall take of its blood, and shall put it on the four horns of the altar, and upon the four corners of the propitiatory, and upon the base round about, and they shall make atonement for it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:1 - I saw the Lord standing on the altar: and he said, Smite the mercy-seat, and the porch shall be shaken: and cut through into the heads of all; and I will slay the remnant of them with the sword: no one of them fleeing shall escape, and no one of them striving to save himself shall be delivered.
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