1) propitious, merciful
Part of Speech: adjective
Citing in TDNT: 3:300, 362
G2436
Perhaps from the alternate form of G138; cheerful (as attractive), that is, propitious; adverbially (by Hebraism) God be gracious!, that is, (in averting some calamity) far be it: - be it far, merciful.
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| merciful | 88.77 |
| (ἵλεώς σοι) God forbid | 88.78 |
These two sites give similar information, with the definition from several dictionaries and statistics on the use of the word.
University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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