Strong's Concordance hilaskomai: to be propitious, make propitiation for Original Word: ἱλάσκομαιPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: hilaskomai Phonetic Spelling: (hil-as'-kom-ahee) Short Definition: I have mercy on, forgive Definition: (a) I have mercy on, show favor to, (b) trans. with object of sins: I forgive, pardon. HELPS Word-studies Cognate: 2433 hiláskomai (akin to 2434 /hilasmós, "propitiation, appeasement/satisfaction of divine wrath on sin") – properly, to extend propitiation, showing mercy by satisfying (literally, propitiating) the wrath of God on sin; "to conciliate, appease, propitiate (so the LXX; see also Thackeray, Gr., 270f quoting from inscriptions and Deiss., BS, 224f)" (Abbott-Smith). See 2434 /hilasmos ("propitiation"). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2433: ἱλάσκομαιἱλάσκομαι; (see below); in classical Greek the middle of an act. ἱλάσκω (to render propitious, appease) never met with; 1. to render propitious to oneself, to appease, conciliate to oneself (from ἴλαος gracious, gentle); from Homer down; mostly with the accusative of a person, as Θεόν, Ἀθηνην, etc. (τόν Θεόν ἱλάσασθαι, Josephus, Antiquities 6, 6, 5); very rarely with the accusative of the thing, as τήν ὀργήν, Plutarch, Cat. min. 61 (with which cf. ἐξιλάσκεσθαι θυμόν, Proverbs 16:14 the Sept.). In Biblical Greek used passively, to become propitious, be placated or appeased; in 1 aorist imperative ἱλάσθητι, be propitious, be gracious, be merciful (in secular authors ἱληθι and Doric, ἵλαθι, which the gramm. regard as the present of an unused verb ἵλημι, to be propitious; cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Sp. ii., p. 206; Kühner, § 343, i., p. 839; Passow, (or Liddell and Scott, or Veitch) under the word ἵλημι), with the dative of the thing or the person: Luke 18:13 (ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις, Psalm 78:9 2. by an Alexandrian usage, to expiate, make propitiation for (as ἐξιλάσκεσθαι in the O. T.): τάς ἁμαριτας, Hebrews 2:17 (ἡμῶν τάς ψυχάς, Philo, alleg. leg. 3, 61). (Cf. Kurtz, Commentary on Hebrews, at the passage cited; Winer's Grammar, 227 (213); Westcott, Epistles of St. John, p. 83f.) Middle voice from the same as hileos; to conciliate, i.e. (transitively) to atone for (sin), or (intransitively) be propitious -- be merciful, make reconciliation for. see GREEK hileos Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 24332 Occurrences ἱλάσκεσθαι — 1 Occ. ἱλάσθητί — 1 Occ. Luke 18:13 V-AMP-2S GRK: Ὁ θεός ἱλάσθητί μοι τῷ NAS: God, be merciful to me, the sinner!' KJV: God be merciful to me INT: God be merciful to me the Hebrews 2:17 V-PNM/P |