ἱλάσκομαι
to propitiate
‘to propitiate’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular 1 time (50%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Infinitive 1 time (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 2 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2433 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 1 verse
Hebrews 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
ιλασκομαι (hiláskomai) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to propitiate.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. Luke dominates its distribution — 1 of 2 verses. It first appears in Luke 18:13. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2433 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 1 verse · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 50%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Be merciful 1×, Make reconciliation for 1×
- American Standard Version: Be thou merciful 1×, Make propitiation for 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Have mercy 1×, Make atonement 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: For 1×, Have mercy 1×, Order to make atonement 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2433 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2433 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2433 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2433 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to render one's self, to appease, conciliate to one's self
- to expiate, make propitiation for
Word origin
Derived from ιλεως (híleōs) (G2436) — merciful.
Middle voice from the same as G2436 ; to conciliate that is (transitively) to atone for (sin) or (intransitively) be propitious : - be merciful make reconciliation for.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G2433 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἱλάσθητί hilásthētí | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular | Luke 18:13 | 1 |
| ἱλάσκεσθαι hiláskesthai | Verb, Present, Passive, Infinitive | Hebrews 2:17 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2433, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
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Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ιλασκομαι appears 106 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 97 verses in 19 books.
- 106
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 97
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 19 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 19 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 32:21 ἐκἱλάσκομαι
- Exodus 30:10 ἐκἱλάσκομαι
- Leviticus 1:4 ἐκἱλάσκομαι
- Numbers 5:8 ἐκἱλάσκομαι
- Deuteronomy 21:8 ἱλάσκομαι
- 1 Samuel 3:14 ἐκἱλάσκομαι
- 2 Samuel 21:3 ἐκἱλάσκομαι
- 2 Kings 5:18 ἱλάσκομαι
- 1 Chronicles 6:34 ἐκἱλάσκομαι
- 2 Chronicles 6:30 ἱλάσκομαι
- Ezra 20:34 ἐκἱλάσκομαι
- Psalms 24:11 ἱλάσκομαι
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2433) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 97. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 32:21 ἐκἱλάσκομαι So the present passed over before him: and he himself lodged that night in the camp.
- Exodus 30:10 ἐκἱλάσκομαι Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh."
- Exodus 30:15 ἐκἱλάσκομαι The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.
- Exodus 30:16 ἐκἱλάσκομαι You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls."
- Exodus 32:14 ἱλάσκομαι Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.
- Exodus 32:30 ἐκἱλάσκομαι It happened on the next day, that Moses said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin."
- Leviticus 1:4 ἐκἱλάσκομαι He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
- Leviticus 4:20 ἐκἱλάσκομαι Thus shall he do with the bull; as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.
- Leviticus 4:26 ἐκἱλάσκομαι All its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin, and he will be forgiven.
- Leviticus 4:31 ἐκἱλάσκομαι All its fat he shall take away, like the fat is taken away from off of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a sweet savor to Yahweh; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.
- Leviticus 4:35 ἐκἱλάσκομαι All its fat he shall take away, like the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned, and he will be forgiven.
- Leviticus 5:6 ἐκἱλάσκομαι and he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.
- Leviticus 5:10 ἐκἱλάσκομαι He shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he has sinned, and he shall be forgiven.
- Leviticus 5:13 ἐκἱλάσκομαι The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned in any of these things, and he will be forgiven; and the rest shall be the priest's, as the meal offering.'"
- Leviticus 5:16 ἐκἱλάσκομαι He shall make restitution for that which he has done wrong in the holy thing, and shall add a fifth part to it, and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and he will be forgiven.
- Leviticus 5:18 ἐκἱλάσκομαι He shall bring a ram without blemish from of the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the thing in which he sinned and didn't know it, and he will be forgiven.
- Leviticus 5:26 ἐκἱλάσκομαι
- Leviticus 6:23 ἐκἱλάσκομαι Every meal offering of a priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten."
- Leviticus 7:7 ἐκἱλάσκομαι "'As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it.
- Leviticus 8:15 ἐκἱλάσκομαι He killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it.
- Leviticus 8:34 ἐκἱλάσκομαι What has been done this day, so Yahweh has commanded to do, to make atonement for you.
- Leviticus 9:7 ἐκἱλάσκομαι Moses said to Aaron, "Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people; and offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them; as Yahweh commanded."
- Leviticus 10:17 ἐκἱλάσκομαι "Why haven't you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, seeing it is most holy, and he has given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Yahweh?
- Leviticus 12:7 ἐκἱλάσκομαι and he shall offer it before Yahweh, and make atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. "'This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female.
- Leviticus 12:8 ἐκἱλάσκομαι If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons; the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.'"
- Leviticus 14:18 ἐκἱλάσκομαι The rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, and the priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh.
- Leviticus 14:19 ἐκἱλάσκομαι "The priest shall offer the sin offering, and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness: and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering;
- Leviticus 14:20 ἐκἱλάσκομαι and the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meal offering on the altar. The priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
- Leviticus 14:21 ἐκἱλάσκομαι "If he is poor, and can't afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil;
- Leviticus 14:29 ἐκἱλάσκομαι The rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before Yahweh.
- Leviticus 14:31 ἐκἱλάσκομαι even such as he is able to afford, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering. The priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before Yahweh."
- Leviticus 14:53 ἐκἱλάσκομαι but he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field. So shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean."
- Leviticus 15:15 ἐκἱλάσκομαι and the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh for his discharge.
- Leviticus 15:30 ἐκἱλάσκομαι The priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before Yahweh for the uncleanness of her discharge.
- Leviticus 16:6 ἐκἱλάσκομαι "Aaron shall offer the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house.
- Leviticus 16:10 ἐκἱλάσκομαι But the goat, on which the lot fell for the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before Yahweh, to make atonement for him, to send him away for the scapegoat into the wilderness.
- Leviticus 16:11 ἐκἱλάσκομαι "Aaron shall present the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull of the sin offering which is for himself.
- Leviticus 16:16 ἐκἱλάσκομαι and he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, even all their sins; and so he shall do for the Tent of Meeting, that dwells with them in the midst of their uncleanness.
- Leviticus 16:17 ἐκἱλάσκομαι There shall be no one in the Tent of Meeting when he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, and has made atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel.
- Leviticus 16:18 ἐκἱλάσκομαι "He shall go out to the altar that is before Yahweh and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the bull's blood, and some of the goat's blood, and put it on the horns of the altar round about.
- Leviticus 16:20 ἐκἱλάσκομαι "When he has made an end of atoning for the Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat.
- Leviticus 16:24 ἐκἱλάσκομαι Then he shall bathe himself in water in a holy place, and put on his garments, and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people.
- Leviticus 16:27 ἐκἱλάσκομαι The bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried forth outside the camp; and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and their dung with fire.
- Leviticus 16:30 ἐκἱλάσκομαι for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins you shall be clean before Yahweh.
- Leviticus 16:32 ἐκἱλάσκομαι The priest, who is anointed and who is consecrated to be priest in his father's place, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments.
- Leviticus 16:33 ἐκἱλάσκομαι Then he shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary; and he shall make atonement for the Tent of Meeting and for the altar; and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.
- Leviticus 16:34 ἐκἱλάσκομαι "This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel once in the year because of all their sins." It was done as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 17:11 ἐκἱλάσκομαι For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.
- Leviticus 19:22 ἐκἱλάσκομαι The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before Yahweh for his sin which he has committed: and the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him.
- Leviticus 23:28 ἐκἱλάσκομαι You shall do no manner of work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Yahweh your God.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2433) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
