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Koine Greek wordlink #143552

SR GNT Heb 8:12 ἵλεως (hileōs) ‘because merciful I will_be to the unrighteousness’ Strongs=24360 Lemma=hileōs
Word role=substantive adjective case=nominative gender=masculine number=singular
Year=64 AD

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Only use of identical word form ἵλεως (S-NMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἵλεως’ (S-NMS) is always and only glossed as ‘merciful’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘hileōs’ have 2 different glosses: ‘merciful’, ‘merciful be’.

Greek words (3) other than ἵλεως (S-NMS) with a gloss related to ‘merciful’

MAT 5:7 ἐλεήμονες (eleaʸmones) S-NMP Lemma=eleēmōn ‘blessed are the merciful because they will_be_being shown_mercy’ SR GNT Mat 5:7 word 3

OET-LV: 7 Blessed are the merciful, because they will _be _being _shown _mercy. (MAT_5:7)

OET-RV: 7 “Those who are merciful are blessed, because they will receive mercy. (MAT 5:7)

MAT 16:22 Ἵλεως (Hileōs) S-NMS ‘to_be giving_rebuke to him saying merciful be to you master by_no_means’ SR GNT Mat 16:22 word 16

OET-LV: 22 And the Petros having _taken _aside him, he _began to _be _giving _rebuke to _him saying: Merciful be to _you, master, by _no _means this will_ not _be to _you. (MAT_16:22)

OET-RV: 22 But Peter took him aside and started telling him off, saying, “Goodness gracious, master, this certainly won’t happen to you.” (MAT 16:22)

HEB 2:17 ἐλεήμων (eleaʸmōn) S-NMS Lemma=eleēmōn ‘brothers to_be likened in_order_that a merciful he may become and faithful’ SR GNT Heb 2:17 word 9

OET-LV: 17 Whence he _was _ought in all things to _his brothers to _be _likened, in _order _that a_merciful he _may _become and faithful chief _priest in _the things for the god, in _order that to _be _being _made _atonement the sins of _the people. (HEB_2:17)

OET-RV: 17 That’s why he had to be just like his brothers and sisters, so that he could become the merciful and faithful chief priest representing God, in order to pay the price for the people’s sins. (HEB 2:17)

Key: S=substantive adjective NMP=nominative,masculine,plural NMS=nominative,masculine,singular