ἱλαστήριος

English (LSJ)

α, ον (ος, ον PFay.337 (ii A.D.)),

   A propitiatory, offered in propitiation, μνῆμα J.AJ16.7.1; θάνατος LXX 4 Ma.17.22; θυσίαι PFay. l.c.    II ἱλαστήριον ἐπίθεμα, the mercy-seat, covering of the ark in the Holy of Holies, LXXEx.25.16(17): ἱλαστήριον alone as Subst., ib.Le.16.2,al., Ep.Hebr.9.5, cf. Ph.2.150.    2 (sc. ἀνάθημα) propitiatory gift or offering, Ep.Rom.3.25; of a monument, Inscr.Cos 81,347.    3 monastery, Men.Prot.p.15 D.

German (Pape)

[Seite 1251] versöhnend, Sp.; τὸ ἱλαστήριον, LXX u. N. T., der Gnadenstuhl.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

ἱλαστήριος: -α, -ον, ἐξιλαστικός, εἰς ἐξιλέωσιν προσφερόμενος, τινος Ἰωσήπ. Ἰουδ. Ἀρχ. 16. 7, 1· χεῖρες ἱλαστ. Νικηφ. Ἀντιοχ. Βίος Συμ. Στυλ. ἐν Actt. SS Maii τ. 5, σ. 335, 17. ΙΙ. ἱλαστήριον (ἐξυπακουομ. τοῦ ἐπίθεμα), τό, τὸ κάλυμμα τῆς κιβωτοῦ εἰς τὰ ἅγια τῶν ἁγίων, Ἑβδ. (Ἔξ. ΚΕ΄, 18, ΛΖ΄, 6 κἑξ.), Ἐπιστ. π. Ἑβρ. θ΄, 5, πρβλ. Φίλωνα 2. 150. 2) (ἐξυπακουομ. τοῦ ἀνάθημα), ἱλασμός, ἐξιλέωσις, Ἐπιστ. π. Ρωμ. γ΄ 25, Ἐκκλ.

French (Bailly abrégé)

ος, ον :
propitiatoire ; τὸ ἱλαστήριον NT sacrifice expiatoire, victime expiatoire.
Étymologie: ἱλάσκομαι.

English (Thayer)

ἱλαστηρια, ἱλαστήριον (ἱλάσκομαι, which see), relating to appeasing or expiating, having placating or expiating force, expiatory: μνῆμα ἱλαστήριον, a monument built to propitiate God, Josephus, Antiquities 16,7, 1; ἱλαστήριος θάνατος, χεῖρας ἱκετηριους, εἰ βούλει δέ ἱλαστηριους, ἐκτείνας Θεῷ, Niceph. in act. SS. edition Mai, vol. v., p. 335,17. Neuter τό ἱλαστήριον, as a substantive, a means of appeasing or expiating, a propitiation (German Versöhnungs- oder Sühnmittel); cf. Winer's Grammar, 96 (91); (592 (551)). So used of:
1. the well-known cover of the ark of the covenant in the Holy of holies, which was sprinkled with the blood of the expiatory victim on the annual day of atonement (this rite signifying that the life of the people, the loss of which they had merited by their sins, was offered to God in the blood as the life of the victim, and that God by this ceremony was appeased and their sins were expiated); hence, the lid of expiation, the propitiatory, Vulg. propitiatorium; Luth. Gnadensruhl (A. V. mercy-seat): Sept. ἱλαστήριον ἐπίθεμα, כַּפֹּרֶת, from כִּפֶּר to cover, namely, sins, i. e. to pardon). Theodoret, Theophylact, Oecumenius, Luther, Grotius, Tholuck, Wilke, Philippi, Umbreit (Cremer (4te Aufl.)) and others give this meaning to the word also in an expiatory sacrifice; a piacular victim (Vulg. propitiatio): χαριστηρια sacrifices expressive of gratitude, thank-offerings, σωτηρία sacrifices for safety obtained. On the other hand, in Dio Chrysostom or. 11,121, p. 355, Reiske edition, the reference is not to a sacrifice but to a monument, as the preceding words show: καταλείψειν γάρ αὐτούς ἀνάθημα κάλλιστον καί μέγιστον τῇ Ἀθηνα καί ἐπιγράψειν, ἱλαστήριον Ἀχαιοι τῇ Ἰλιαδι). (See the full discussion of the word in Dr. Jets. Morison, Critical Exposition of the Third Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans , pp. 281-303.)