Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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 ἱλαστήριον ἐπίθεμα χρυσίου καθαροῦ, δύο πήχεων καὶ ἡμίσουσ τὸ μῆκοσ καί πήχεωσ καὶ ἡμίσουσ τὸ πλάτοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 25:16)
  • 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 ἐπιθήσεισ τὸ ἱλαστήριον ἐπὶ τὴν κιβωτὸν ἄνωθεν. καὶ εἰσ τὴν κιβωτὸν ἐμβαλεῖσ τὰ μαρτύρια, ἃ ἂν δῷ σοι. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 25:20)
  • τὴν σκηνὴν τοῦ μαρτυρίου καὶ τὴν κιβωτὸν τῆσ διαθήκησ καὶ τὸ ἱλαστήριον τὸ ἐπ̓ αὐτῆσ καὶ τὴν διασκευὴν τῆσ σκηνῆς (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 31:7)
  • καὶ τὴν κιβωτὸν τοῦ μαρτυρίου καὶ τοὺσ ἀναφορεῖσ αὐτῆσ καὶ τὸ ἱλαστήριον αὐτῆσ καὶ τὸ καταπέτασμα (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 35:11)

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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