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Strong's numbers

ἱλαστήριον G2435

hilastḗrion

hil-as-tay'-ree-on

neuter of a derivative of ἱλάσκομαι; an expiatory (place or thing), i.e. (concretely) an atoning victim, or (specially) the lid of the Ark (in the Temple):--mercyseat, propitiation.

Abbott–Smith

† ἱλαστήριος, -α, -ον (< ἱλάσκομαι), [in LXX: IV Mac 17:22; neut., Ex 25:16(17) ff. 31:7 35:12 38:5 (37:6) ff., Le 16:2, 13 ff. Nu 7:89 (כַּפֹּרֶת), Ez 43:14, 17, 20 (עֲזָרָה) Am 9:1 (on the original here, v. Deiss., BS, 127)*;]
propitiatory (μνῆμα, FlJ, Ant., xvi, 7, 1; θάνατος, II Mac, l.c.): of Christ, Ro 3:25; as subst., το ἱ. (sc. ἐπίθεμα, Ex 25:16, 17, where the word first occurs in LXX and where ἱ. ἐ. = כַּפֹּרֶת (q.v. in BDB, s.v.), elsewhere rendered simply τὸ ἱ; cf. Deiss., 124 ff.; Westc., He., in l.), He 9:5.†

From G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), in the public domain.

2 occurrences

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  • Romans 3:25
    Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
  • Hebrews 9:5
    And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.