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ἱλαστήριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱλαστήριος ἱλαστήριᾱ ἱλαστήριον

Structure: ἱλαστηρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. propitiatory
  2. the mercy-seat
  3. a propitiation

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ ποιήσεισ δύο Χερουβὶμ χρυσοτορευτὰ καὶ ἐπιθήσεισ αὐτὰ ἐξ ἀμφοτέρων τῶν κλιτῶν τοῦ ἱλαστηρίου. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 25:17)
  • ποιηθήσονται Χεροὺβ εἷσ ἐκ τοῦ κλίτουσ τούτου καὶ Χεροὺβ εἷσ ἐκ τοῦ κλίτουσ τοῦ δευτέρου τοῦ ἱλαστηρίου. καὶ ποιήσεισ τοὺσ δύο Χερουβὶμ ἐπὶ τὰ δύο κλίτη. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 25:18)
  • ἔσονται οἱ Χερουβὶμ ἐκτείνοντεσ τὰσ πτέρυγασ ἐπάνωθεν, συσκιάζοντεσ ἐν ταῖσ πτέρυξιν αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τοῦ ἱλαστηρίου, καὶ τὰ πρόσωπα αὐτῶν εἰσ ἄλληλα. εἰσ τὸ ἱλαστήριον ἔσονται τὰ πρόσωπα τῶν Χερουβίμ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 25:19)
  • καὶ γνωσθήσομαί σοι ἐκεῖθεν καὶ λαλήσω σοι ἄνωθεν τοῦ ἱλαστηρίου ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν δύο Χερουβὶμ τῶν ὄντων ἐπὶ τῆσ κιβωτοῦ τοῦ μαρτυρίου καὶ κατὰ πάντα, ὅσα ἐὰν ἐντείλωμαί σοι πρὸσ τοὺσ υἱοὺσ Ἰσραήλ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 25:21)
  • Χεροὺβ ἕνα ἐπί τὸ ἄκρον τοῦ ἱλαστηρίου τὸ ἓν καὶ Χεροὺβ ἕνα ἐπὶ τὸ ἄκρον τοῦ ἱλαστηρίου τὸ δεύτερον, (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 38:7)

Synonyms

  1. propitiatory

  2. the mercy-seat

  3. a propitiation

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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