ἱλασμός
hilasmós · G2434 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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the means of forgiveness, expiation
The means by which sins are forgiven
Examples1 John 2:2 and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
1 John 4:10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀποστέλλωto send 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- The means of forgiveness, expiation40.12
- In 1 John 2:2, it is written, “He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world,” naming this means of atonement directly.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἱλασμοῦ, ὁ (ἱλάσκομαι); 1. an appeasing, propitiating, Vulg.propitiatio (Plutarch, de…
1. an appeasing, propitiating, Vulg.propitiatio (Plutarch, de sera num. vind. c. 17; plural joined with καθαρμοι, Plutarch, Sol. 12; with the genitive of the object τῶν θεῶν, the Orphica Arg. 39; Plutarch, Fab. 18; θεῶν μῆνιν ἱλασμοῦ καί χαριστηριων δεομένην, vit. Camill. 7 at the end; ποιεῖσθαι ἱλασμόν, of a priest offering an expiatory sacrifice, 2 Macc. 3:33).
2. in Alex. usage the means of appeasing, a propitiation: Philo, alleg. leg. 3: § 61; προσοίσουσιν ἱλασμόν, for חַטָּאת, Ezek 44:27; περί τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν, of Christ, 1 Jn 2:2; 1 Jn 4:10 (κριός τοῦ ἱλασμοῦ, Num 5:8; (cf. ἡμέρα τοῦ ἱλασμοῦ, Lev 25:9); also for סְלִיחָה, forgiveness, Ps 129:4; Dan 9:9, Theod.). (Cf. Trench, § lxxvii.)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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