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It is often translated as "propitiation" or "mercy seat," referring to the lid of the Ark of the Covenant where the high priest would sprinkle the blood of the sacrifice on the Day of Atonement. In a broader theological sense, it signifies the place or means by which reconciliation between God and humanity is achieved, particularly through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ.<p><span class="tophdg">Cultural and Historical Background: </span>In the context of the Old Testament, the "hilastérion" or "mercy seat" was a critical component of the Tabernacle and later the Temple. It was the gold cover on the Ark of the Covenant, flanked by two cherubim, where God's presence was believed to dwell. The high priest would enter the Holy of Holies once a year on Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) to sprinkle the blood of a sacrificial animal on the mercy seat, symbolizing the atonement for the sins of Israel. In the New Testament, this concept is fulfilled in Jesus Christ, who is seen as the ultimate atoning sacrifice.<div class="vheading2">HELPS Word-studies</div><p class="discovery"><b>2435</b> <i>hilastḗrion</i> (a substantival adjective, derived from <a href="/greek/2433.htm">2433</a> <i>/hiláskomai</i>, "to propitiate") – the <i>place of propitiation</i>; the lid of the golden ark (the <i>mercy-seat</i>) where the blood of a vicarious lamb appeased God's wrath on sin. See also <a href="/greek/2434.htm">2434</a> (<i>hilasmós</i>).</p><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/discovery.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">NAS Exhaustive Concordance</div><span class="hdg">Word Origin</span><br>from hilastérios; from <a href="/greek/2433.htm">hilaskomai</a><br><span class="hdg">Definition</span><br>propitiatory<br><span class="hdg">NASB Translation</span><br>mercy seat (1), propitiation (1).<p><div align="center"><span class="smalltext"><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/nasec.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe></span></div><div class="vheading2">Thayer's Greek Lexicon</div><span class="maintitle">STRONGS NT 2435: ἱλαστήριος</span><br><br><span class="arttitle"><span class="grktitle">ἱλαστήριος</span></span>, <span class="greek2">ἱλαστηρια</span>, <span class="greek2">ἱλαστήριον</span> (<span class="greek2">ἱλάσκομαι</span>, which see), <span class="accented">relating to appeasing or expiating, having placating or expiating force, expiatory</span>: <span class="greek2">μνῆμα</span> <span class="greek2">ἱλαστήριον</span>, a monument built to propitiate God, <span class="abbreviation">Josephus</span>, Antiquities 16, 7, 1; <span class="greek2">ἱλαστήριος</span> <span class="greek2">θάνατος</span>, 4 Macc. 17:22; <span class="greek2">χεῖρας</span> <span class="greek2">ἱκετηριους</span>, <span class="greek2">εἰ</span> <span class="greek2">βούλει</span> <span class="greek2">δέ</span> <span class="greek2">ἱλαστηριους</span>, <span class="greek2">ἐκτείνας</span> <span class="greek2">Θεῷ</span>, Niceph. in act. SS. edition Mai, vol. v., p. 335, 17. Neuter <span class="greek2">τό</span> <span class="greek2">ἱλαστήριον</span>, as a substantive, <span class="accented">a means of appeasing or expiating, a propitiation</span> (German <span class="foreign">Versöhnungs-</span> oder<span class="latin">Sühnmittel</span>); cf. <span class="abbreviation">Winer</span>'s Grammar, 96 (91); (592 (551)). So used of: <p><span class="textheading">1.</span> 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, <span class="accented">the lid of expiation, the propitiatory,</span> <span class="manuref">Vulg.</span><span class="latin">propitiatorium</span>; Luth.<span class="latin">Gnadensruhl</span> (<span class="abbreviation">A. V.</span> <span class="accented">mercy-seat</span>): <a href="/interlinear/hebrews/9-5.htm">Hebrews 9:5</a> (the <span class="manuref">Sept.</span> <a href="/interlinear/exodus/25-18.htm">Exodus 25:18</a>ff; <a href="/interlinear/leviticus/16-2.htm">Leviticus 16:2</a>, etc.; more fully <span class="greek2">ἱλαστήριον</span> <span class="greek2">ἐπίθεμα</span>, <a href="/interlinear/exodus/25-17.htm">Exodus 25:17</a>; <a href="/interlinear/exodus/38-7.htm">Exodus 38:7</a> (<a href="/interlinear/exodus/37-6.htm">Exodus 37:6</a>), for the Hebrew <span class="hebrew">כַּפֹּרֶת</span>, from <span class="hebrew">כִּפֶּר</span> to cover, namely, sins, i. e. to pardon). <span class="abbreviation">Theodoret</span>, <span class="abbreviation">Theophylact</span>, <span class="abbreviation">Oecumenius</span>, Luther, Grotius, Tholuck, Wilke, Philippi, Umbreit (<span class="abbreviation">Cremer</span> (4te Aufl.)) and others give this meaning to the word also in <a href="/interlinear/romans/3-25.htm">Romans 3:25</a>, viz. that Christ, besprinkled with his own blood, was truly that which the cover or 'mercy-seat' had been typically, i. e., the sign and pledge of expiation; but in opposed to this interpretation see Fritzsche, Meyer, Van Hengel (Godet, Oltramare) and others at the passage <p><span class="textheading">2.</span> <span class="accented">an expiatory sacrifice; a piacular victim</span> (<span class="manuref">Vulg.</span><span class="latin">propitiatio</span>): <a href="/interlinear/romans/3-25.htm">Romans 3:25</a> (after the analogy of the words <span class="greek2">χαριστηρια</span> sacrifices expressive of gratitude, <span class="accented">thank-offerings,</span> <span class="greek2">σωτηρία</span> sacrifices for safety obtained. On the other hand, in <span class="abbreviation">Dio Chrysostom</span> or. 11, 121, p. 355, Reiske edition, the reference is not to a sacrifice but to a monument, as the preceding words show: <span class="greek2">καταλείψειν</span> <span class="greek2">γάρ</span> <span class="greek2">αὐτούς</span> <span class="greek2">ἀνάθημα</span> <span class="greek2">κάλλιστον</span> <span class="greek2">καί</span> <span class="greek2">μέγιστον</span> <span class="greek2">τῇ</span> <span class="greek2">Ἀθηνα</span> <span class="greek2">καί</span> <span class="greek2">ἐπιγράψειν</span>, <span class="greek2">ἱλαστήριον</span> <span class="greek2">Ἀχαιοι</span> <span class="greek2">τῇ</span> <span class="greek2">Ἰλιαδι</span>). (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.)<FOOTNOTE:1> <br><br><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/bsoft.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">Strong's Exhaustive Concordance</div>mercy seat <p>Neuter of a derivative of <a href="/greek/2433.htm">hilaskomai</a>; an expiatory (place or thing), i.e. (concretely) an atoning victim, or (specially) the lid of the Ark (in the Temple) -- mercyseat, propitiation. <p>see GREEK <a href="/greek/2433.htm">hilaskomai</a> <div class="vheading2">Forms and Transliterations</div>ιλαστηριον ιλαστήριον ἱλαστήριον ιλαστηρίου hilasterion hilastērion hilastḗrion ilasterion ilastērion<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/matthew/1-1.htm">Interlinear Greek</a> • <a href="/interlinear/genesis/1-1.htm">Interlinear Hebrew</a> • <a href="/strongs.htm">Strong's Numbers</a> • <a href="/englishmans_greek.htm">Englishman's Greek Concordance</a> • <a href="/englishmans_hebrew.htm">Englishman's Hebrew Concordance</a> • <a href="/texts/matthew/1-1.htm">Parallel Texts</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Englishman's Concordance</div><b><a href="/text/romans/3-25.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Romans 3:25</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular">N-ANS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/romans/3.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">ὁ θεὸς <b>ἱλαστήριον</b> διὰ τῆς</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/romans/3.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> displayed publicly <span class="itali">as a propitiation</span> in His blood<br><a href="/kjvs/romans/3.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> hath set forth <span class="itali">[to be] a propitiation</span> through<br><a href="/interlinear/romans/3-25.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> God <span class="itali">a mercy seat</span> through the<p><b><a href="/text/hebrews/9-5.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Hebrews 9:5</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular">N-ANS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/hebrews/9.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">κατασκιάζοντα τὸ <b>ἱλαστήριον</b> περὶ ὧν</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/hebrews/9.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> overshadowing <span class="itali">the mercy seat;</span> but of these things<br><a href="/kjvs/hebrews/9.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> shadowing <span class="itali">the mercyseat;</span> of<br><a href="/interlinear/hebrews/9-5.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> overshadowing the <span class="itali">mercy seat</span> concerning which<p><b><a href="/greek/2435.htm">Strong's Greek 2435</a><br><a href="/greek/strongs_2435.htm">2 Occurrences</a></b><br><br><a href="/greek/ilaste_rion_2435.htm">ἱλαστήριον — 2 Occ.</a><br><br></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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