Lit. a propitiatory sacrifice, through faith by his blood; (Greek - hilasterion [iÔlasth/rion] , “place of propitiation).” The word occurs, 1 John 2:2; 4:10 as the trans. of hilasmos, “that which propitiates,” “a propitiatory sacrifice.” Hilasterion is used by the Septuagint, and Hebrews 9:5 for “mercy-seat.” The mercy-seat was sprinkled with atoning blood in the day of atonement Leviticus 16:14 in token that the righteous sentence of the law had been (typically) carried out, so that what must else have been a judgment-seat could righteously be a mercy-seat ; Hebrews 9:11-15; 4:14-16, a place of communion Exodus 25:21,22.

In fulfilment of the type, Christ is Himself the hilasmos, “that which propitiates,” and the hilasterion, “the place of propitiation” --the mercy-seat sprinkled with His own blood-- the token that in our stead He so honoured the law by enduring its righteous sentence that God, who ever foresaw the cross, is vindicated in having “passed over” sins from Adam to Moses Romans 5:13 and the sins of believers under the old covenant (See Scofield “Exodus 29:33”) and just in justifying sinners under the covenant. There is no thought in propitiation of placating a vengeful God, but of doing right by His holy law and so making it possible for Him righteously to show mercy.

Remission passing over of sins done aforetime, i.e. since Adam. Cf. Hebrews 9:15.

Romans 3:25

Whom God hath set forth to be a atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin of sins that are past, through the atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin of God;

1 John 2:2

And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin.

1 John 4:10

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin for our sins.

Hebrews 9:5

And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin; of which we cannot now speak particularly.

Leviticus 16:14

And he shall take of the atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.

Hebrews 9:11-15

11 But Christ being come an high priest of atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin, by a greater and more perfect atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin redemption for us.

13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin of the flesh:

14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin offered himself without spot to God, atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin from dead works to serve the living God?

15 And for this cause he is the atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin.

Hebrews 4:14-16

14 Seeing then that we have a atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin.

16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin, and find atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin to help in time of need.

Exodus 25:21-22

21 And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin that I shall give thee.

22 And there I will atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.

Romans 5:13

(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin when there is no law.

Exodus 29:33

And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin was made, to atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin and to atonementbloodconsecrateeternaleternal Spiritforbearancegood things to comegracegreat high priestimputedinfirmitiesinheritancemediatormeetmercymercy seatmercyseatown bloodpropitiationpurge your consciencepurifyingremissionsanctifytabernacletestimonytransgressionstwo cherubimswhole worldwithout sin them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.