To propitiate
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G2433 appears in the tax collector\'s plea for mercy and Hebrews\' statement about Christ making atonement. In its New Testament settings, the word is used with the range and pressure described by its local passages rather than by a bare gloss alone.
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G2433 appears in the tax collector\'s plea for mercy and Hebrews\' statement about Christ making atonement. In its New Testament settings, the word is used with the range and pressure described by its local passages rather than by a bare gloss alone.
The BSB source-word alignment has 2 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include have mercy (1), make atonement (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 18:13. Its strongest book concentrations include Hebrews (1), Luke (1).
G2433 appears in the tax collector\'s plea for mercy and Hebrews\' statement about Christ making atonement. In its New Testament settings, the word is used with the range and pressure described by its local passages rather than by a bare gloss alone. The small occurrence set requires careful handling. Luke shows the sinner\'s plea; Hebrews shows the priestly work of Christ.
This companion therefore treats the word as a Scripture-governed guide, not as a shortcut around exegesis. It helps teachers hold confession, mercy, priesthood, incarnation, and atonement together. It should help readers ask better questions of the passage: who is speaking or acting, what covenant or gospel reality is in view, and how the surrounding context limits or strengthens the claim.
The word alone should not settle every debate about atonement terminology.
G2433 joins the sinner\'s plea for mercy with Christ\'s priestly work of atonement.
But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’
The tax collector asks God for mercy as a sinner.
For this reason He had to be made like His brothers in every way, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, in order to make atonement for the sins of the people.
Jesus becomes a merciful and faithful high priest to make atonement for sins.
God presented Him as an atoning sacrifice in His blood through faith, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.
Romans uses related atonement language around Christ\'s blood and God\'s righteousness; this is related support, not the same verb.
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How English Renders ItA compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
Greek word. To expiate sin and make God propitious; shifts from appeasing anger to removing defilement.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
2 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
I have mercy on, forgive
Read verseI have mercy on, forgive
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
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How this verb appears across 2 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
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Where this word appears in Scripture: passage, original form, and sense in context.
ἱλάσκομαι is built from this root:
Points to atonement fulfilled in Christ. Luke 18:9–14
Compound and idiomatic phrases that include this word. Follow a link to study the phrase and how its parts work together.
Teach G2433 as mercy with a priestly foundation. A faithful teacher should begin with the nearest passage, observe who acts, what is being named, what problem or promise is in view, and what response the text calls for, then move carefully to related passages. It helps hearers see that mercy is not God ignoring sin but mercy secured through the faithful High Priest.
The entry should help readers read Scripture more carefully, not replace the work of tracing the sentence, paragraph, book, and covenant setting. This keeps the word useful for shepherds, teachers, leaders, groups, families, and disciples without letting the word carry claims that belong to the whole passage or canon.
Luke.18.13
The verb can carry the sense of making atonement or showing mercy. Related terms must be distinguished.
Old Testament priestly and mercy-seat patterns stand behind Hebrews, but should be connected through Hebrews\' argument.
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