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ἐξιλ-άσκομαι , fut. -άσομαι [α^],
A.propitiate, Δία Orac. ap. Hdt.7.141; “Ἀπόλλωνα” X.Cyr.7.2.19; “τὴν θεόν” Men.544.6, cf. J.AJ12.2.14; “τὴν ὀργήν τινος” Plb.1.68.4; “τὸ μήνιμα” Plu.2.149d.
2. atone for, “ἁμαρτίαν” IG22.1365,1366:—Pass., τὸ ἀποίνοις ἐξιλασθέν that which is atoned for by . ., Pl.Lg.862c.
3. abs., make atonement, περὶ τῶν ψυχῶν, περὶ τῆς ἁμαρτίας, LXXEx.30.15,32.30; ὑπὲρ τοῦ οἴκου Ἰσραήλ ib.Ez.45.17. [ι^ in Orac. ap. Hdt. l.c.]
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.141
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 12.2.14
    • Old Testament, Ezekiel, 45.17
    • Plato, Laws, 862c
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 7.2.19
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.68.4
    • Old Testament, Exodus, 30.15
    • Old Testament, Exodus, 32.30
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