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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)
Dictionary Aids

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.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:17 -

“Make a mercy seat of pure gold, forty-five inches long and twenty-seven inches wide.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:18 -

“Make two cherubim of gold; make them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:19 -

“Make one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end. At its two ends, make the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:20 -

“The cherubim are to have wings spread out above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and are to face one another. The faces of the cherubim should be toward the mercy seat.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:21 -

“Set the mercy seat on top of the ark and put the tablets of the testimony that I will give you into the ark.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:22 -

“I will meet with you there above the mercy seat, between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony; I will speak with you from there about all that I command you regarding the Israelites.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:7 -

“the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that is on top of it, and all the other furnishings of the tent ​— ​

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:12 -

“the ark with its poles, the mercy seat, and the curtain for the screen;

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:6 -

He made a mercy seat of pure gold, forty-five inches long and twenty-seven inches wide.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:8 -

one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end. At each end, he made a cherub of one piece with the mercy seat.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:9 -

They had wings spread out. They faced each other and covered the mercy seat with their wings. The faces of the cherubim were looking toward the mercy seat.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:2 -

The LORD said to Moses, “Tell your brother Aaron that he may not come whenever he wants into the holy place behind the curtain in front of the mercy seat on the ark or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:13 -

“He is to put the incense on the fire before the LORD, so that the cloud of incense covers the mercy seat that is over the testimony, or else he will die.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:14 -

“He is to take some of the bull’s blood and sprinkle it with his finger against the east side of the mercy seat; then he will sprinkle some of the blood with his finger before the mercy seat seven times.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:15 -

“When he slaughters the male goat for the people’s sin offering and brings its blood inside the curtain, he will do the same with its blood as he did with the bull’s blood: He is to sprinkle it against the mercy seat and in front of it.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:89 -

When Moses entered the tent of meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim. He spoke to him that way.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:14 -

“The distance from the gutter on the ground to the lower ledge is 3 1/2 feet,[fn] and the width of the ledge is 21 inches. There are 7 feet[fn] from the small ledge to the large ledge, whose width is also 21 inches.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:17 -

“The ledge is 24 1/2 feet[fn] long by 24 1/2 feet wide, with four equal sides. The rim all around it is 10 1/2 inches,[fn] and its gutter is 21 inches all around it. The altar’s steps face east.”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:20 -

“You are to take some of its blood and apply it to the four horns of the altar, the four corners of the ledge, and all around the rim. In this way you will purify the altar and make atonement for it.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:1 -

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said:

Strike the capitals of the pillars

so that the thresholds shake;

knock them down on the heads of all the people.

Then I will kill the rest of them with the sword.

None of those who flee will get away;

none of the fugitives will escape.

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