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propitious Original Word: ἵλεωςTransliteration: hileós Phonetic Spelling: (hil'-eh-oce) Short Definition: gracious
another spelling of hilaos (propitious, gracious) Definition propitious NASB Word Usage god forbid (1), merciful (1). NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries Copyright © 1981, 1998 by The Lockman Foundation All rights reserved Lockman.org
Perhaps from the alternate form of haireomai; cheerful (as attractive), i.e. Propitious; adverbially (by Hebraism) God be gracious!, i.e. (in averting some calamity) far be it -- be it far, merciful. see GREEK haireomai
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