ἵλεως
hileōs · merciful
Greek word · Strong’s number G2436 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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hileōs (ἵλεως) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “merciful”.
Gracious. "May God be merciful to you!": a way of rejecting something, "far be it from you!".
How to say it
hi·le·ōs
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Forgiving and kind.
- An expression rejecting something firmly: God forbid!
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- Far be it ×1
- merciful ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Matthew 16:22
And Peter, taking him aside, began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This will never happen to you.”
- Hebrews 8:12
For I will be merciful toward their unrighteous deeds, and their sins I will never remember anymore.