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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 Box Exo 25:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:17 - “You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold; two and a half cubits shall be its length and a cubit and a half its width.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:18 - “And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work you shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:19 - “Make one cherub at one end, and the other cherub at the other end; you shall make the cherubim at the two ends of it of one piece with the mercy seat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:20 - “And the cherubim shall stretch out their wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and they shall face one another; the faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:21 - “You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the Testimony that I will give you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:22 - “And there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the Testimony, about everything which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 31:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:7 - “the tabernacle of meeting, the ark of the Testimony and the mercy seat that is on it, and all the furniture of the tabernacle—

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:12 - ‘the ark and its poles, with the mercy seat, and the veil of the covering;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 37:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:6 - He also made the mercy seat of pure gold; two and a half cubits was its length and a cubit and a half its width.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 37:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:8 - one cherub at one end on this side, and the other cherub at the other end on that side. He made the cherubim at the two ends of one piece with the mercy seat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 37:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:9 - The cherubim spread out their wings above, and covered the mercy seat with their wings. They faced one another; the faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:2 - and the LORD said to Moses: “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark, lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:13 - “And he shall put the incense on the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the Testimony, lest he die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:14 - “He shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east side; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:15 - “Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, which is for the people, bring its blood inside the veil, do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:89

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:89 - Now when Moses went into the tabernacle of meeting to speak with Him, he heard the voice of One speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim; thus He spoke to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 43:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:14 - “from the base on the ground to the lower ledge, two cubits; the width of the ledge, one cubit; from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits; and the width of the ledge, one cubit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 43:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:17 - “the ledge, fourteen cubits long and fourteen wide on its four sides, with a rim of half a cubit around it; its base, one cubit all around; and its steps face toward the east.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 43:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:20 - ‘You shall take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and on the rim around it; thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:1 - I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and He said:

“Strike the doorposts, that the thresholds may shake,
And break them on the heads of them all.
I will slay the last of them with the sword.
He who flees from them shall not get away,
And he who escapes from them shall not be delivered.
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