adjective
hilaos
Strong’sG2436
propitious, forgiving
stem hila-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἵλεως, -ων
(Att. for ἵλαος), [in LXX for חָלִיל, I Ki 14:45, II Ki 20:20, al.; ἵ. εἶναι, סלח, III Ki 8:30 ff., Je 38(31):34, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2436 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhil'-eh-oce
cheerful (as attractive), i.e. propitious; adverbially (by Hebraism) God be gracious!, i.e. (in averting some calamity) far be it
Fromperhaps from the alternate form of G138;
King Jamesbe it far, merciful.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
[see. entry near the end], ον, Epic dialect and Lyric poetry (incl. Lyric poetry of Trag., Refs 5th c.BC+: irregular genitive ἱλάονος Refs 4th c.BC+; Attic dialect and later ἵλεως, ων (also in Refs 3rd c.BC+, variant for{ἵλεον} in Refs 5th c.BC+ indeclinable as nominative plural, Refs 2nd c.BC+, as accusative singular, LXX+5th c.BC+: ἵλεος, ον, Refs 5th c.BC+: ἵληϝος, uncertain in Refs 6th c.BC+,= epigram cited in Refs 2nd c.AD+; Aeolic dialect ἴλλαος Refs:—of gods, propitious, gracious, ἔπειθ᾽ ἵλαος Ὀλύμπιος ἔσσεται ἡμῖν NT+8th c.BC+; in deprecation, ἵλεώς σοι, κύριε (i.e. ὁ θεός), i.e. be it far from thee, NT+4th c.AD+
2 of things, propitious, blameless, atoned for, ἵλαον ἦναι, opposed to ἰνμενφὲς ἦναι, Refs 5th c.BC+
II of men, gracious, kindly, σὺ δ᾽ ἵλαον ἔνθεο θυμόν Refs 8th c.BC+
III adverb ἱλάως and ἱλέως, Refs 8th c.BC+; elsewhere ᾰ, see above, also Refs
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | hilaos2×Ἵλεώς | hilaas | hilaem | hilaois | hilaais | hilaeim |
| object accusative | hilaon | hilaan | hilaoin | hilaain | ||
| direct address vocative | hilaor | hilaar | hilaoir | hilaair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | hilaou | hilaau | hilaeu | hilaoiu | hilaaiu | hilaeiu |
| to, for dative | hilao | hilaa | hilae | hilaoi | hilaai | hilaei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
hila is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
hilaos“merciful”subjectnominative singular2×
Matthew 16:22… tos Petros archeta epitimarō auto legarōntos; Hilaos si, kurior; ouk mē eti si …… aside and began to rebuke Him. “Far be it from You, Lord!” he said. “This …
Hebrews 8:12“merciful”hoti hilaos emi tai adikiai autoiu, kai taiu …For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember …