Bible Lexicons

ἱλάσκομαι

(< ἵλαος = ἵλεως ),

[in LXX (cf. Westc., Epp. Jo., 85 f.) for H5545, 2 Kings 5:18; 2 Kings 24:4, Psalms 25:11, Lamentations 3:42, Da TH Daniel 9:19; H3722 pi., Psalms 65:3; Psalms 78:38; Psalms 79:9; H5162 ni., Exodus 32:14, Ezra 4:17*;]

1. in cl., c. acc pers., to conciliate, appease, propitiate (= ἐξιλάσκομαι , Genesis 32:20, Proverbs 16:14, Malachi 1:9, al.).

2. In LXX (Thackeray, Gr., 270, 1.), Inscr. (Deiss., BS, 224 f.), and NT, to be propitious, merciful (c. dat. rei, Psalms 79:9, al.): c. dat pers. (2 Kings 5:18), Luke 18:13.

3. As in Philo (= ἐξιλάσκ -, in LXX: Ezekiel 43:22, al.), to expiate, make propitiation for: τ . ἁμαρτίας , Hebrews 2:17 (Cremer, 301 ff., 735).†

For this verb = ";render propitious to oneself"; c. acc. of the person, as in classical Greek, see Syll 641.5 ff. (end of iii/B.C.) ἔχρησεν ὁ θεὸς ἔσεσθαι λώϊον καὶ ἄμεινον αὐτοῖς ἱλασκομένοις καὶ τιμῶσιν. . . Δία Πατρώϊον καὶ Ἀπόλλωνα. . . τιμᾶν δὲ καὶ ἱλάσκεσθαι καὶ Ἀγαθὸν Δαίμωνα Ποσειδωνίου καὶ Γοργίδος, and Michel 1211.5 (i/B.C. ?) ὁ θεὸς ἐκολάσετο τὸν Ἑρμογένην καὶ εἱλάσετο τὸν θεόν, καὶ ἀπὸ νῦν εὐδοξεῖ : ct. Menander Ἐπιτρέποντες 664 τοῦτον (θεὸν) ἱλάσκου ποῶν | μηδὲν ἄτοπον μηδ᾽ ἀμαθές. A similar use of the compound ἐξιλάσκομαι, which extends to the LXX (Genesis 32:20 (Jacob and Esau), Zechariah 7:2 (God) : cf. Thackeray Gr. i. p. 270), is seen in Menander Fragm. p. 164, No. 544.6 καὶ τὴν θεὸν | ἐξιλάσαντο τῷ ταπεινοῦσθαι σφόδρα. Both in the LXX (e.g. Psalms 78:9 [MT Psalms 79:9]) and NT (Luke 18:13) ἱλάσκομαι is found in the pass. c. dat. = ";be propitious,"; ";be merciful,"; while the striking use of the verb c. acc. of the thing for which propitiation is made in Hebrews 2:17 ἱλάσκεσθαι τὰς ἁμαρτίας can be illustrated from the use of the compound not only in such LXX passages as Sirach 3:8 al., but in an inscr. belonging to the Imperial period found near Sunium, where in the directions for a sanctuary in honour of the god Mên Tyrannus, the words occur : —ὃς ἂν δὲ πολυπραγμονήσῃ τὰ τοῦ θεοῦ ἢ περιεργάσηται, ἁμαρτίαν ὀφ (ε)ιλέτω Μηνὶ Τυράννῳ, ἣν οὐ μὴ δύνηται ἐξειλάσασθαι (Syll 633 .14 ff. : cf. Deissmann BS, p. 225). This last ex. from a profane source should perhaps make us careful in not pressing too far the theological implications which are sometimes found in the grammatical constructions of the verb in Biblical Greek (cf. e.g. Westcott Epp. of St. John, p. 83 ff.). According to Boisacq (p. 373) ἱλάσκομαι derives from a reduplicated form * σι —σλα ̆—σκομαι, as ἵλεως represents * σι —σλα ̆—ϝ ος.

 

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