ἐξιλάσκομαι G91231

Home gloss: propitiate
Instead of (KJV / RSV): appease / appease / propitiate
Note: To make a face or a person favourable, and in Leviticus the priest's act for sin (Lev 4:20; 16:16), for the piel of כָּפַר "atone" (132a). Of the root of ἱλάσκομαι (Luke 18:13; Heb 2:17) and ἱλασμός "propitiation" (1 John 2:2; 4:10)
Rulings: 2, 46

Occurrences (1)

32:20 and you shall say, 'Look, your servant Jacob is coming up behind us.'" For he said, "I will propitiate his face with the gifts that are going before him, and after this I will see his face; for it may be he will welcome my face."