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The New Testament Greek Lexicon

 Strong's Number:  2435 encodedOriginalWord
Original WordWord Origin
 ἱλαστήριον  from a derivative of (2433)
Transliterated WordPhonetic Spelling
 hilastērion hil-as-tay'-ree-on
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Parts of SpeechTDNT
 Noun Neuter 3:318,362
 Definition
 
  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
 Translated Words
 KJV (2) - mercyseat, 1; propitiation, 1;

NAS (2) - mercy seat, 1; propitiation, 1;

 Verse Count
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Romans1
Hebrews1
 
Romans1
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TDNT - Theological Dictionary of the New Testament;

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The New Testament Greek Lexicon based on Thayer's and Smith's Bible Dictionary plus others; this is keyed to the large Kittel and the "Theological Dictionary of the New Testament." These files are public domain.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries. Copyright © 1981, 1998 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved. http://www.lockman.org/.

Bibliography Information
Thayer and Smith. "Greek Lexicon entry for Hilasterion". "The New Testament Greek Lexicon".
<http://www.searchgodsword.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=2435>.  

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