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#02436

ἵλεως

híleōs

Sounds like hil'•eh•oce

Cheerful (as attractive), i.e. propitious; adverbially (by Hebraism) God be gracious!, i.e. (in averting some calamity) far be it.

Derived perhaps from the alternate form of #00138 (αἱρέομαι / hairéomai).


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