Lexicon katallagé: reconciliation Original Word: καταλλαγή, ῆς, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: katallagé Phonetic Spelling: (kat-al-lag-ay') Short Definition: reconciliation Definition: reconciliation, restoration to favor. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 2643 katallagḗ – reconciliation (restoration) as the resulting of Christ exactly (precisely) exchanging His righteousness (blood) for our guilt. See 2644 (katallassō). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom katallassóDefinitionreconciliation NASB Translationreconciliation (4).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2643: καταλλαγήκαταλλαγή, καταλλαγῆς, ἡ ( καταλλάσσω, which see); 1. exchange; of the business of money-changers, exchanging equivalent values ((Aristotle, others)). Hence, 2. adjustment of a difference, reconciliation, restoration to favor, (from Aeschylus on); in the N. T., of the restoration of the favor of God to sinners that repent and put their trust in the expiatory death of Christ: 2 Corinthians 5:18f; with the genitive of the one received into favor, τοῦ κόσμου (opposed to ἀποβολή), Romans 11:15; καταλλαγήν ἐλάβομεν, we received the blessing of the recovered favor of God, Romans 5:11; with the genitive of him whose favor is recovered, 2 Macc. 5:20. (Cf. Trench, § lxxvii.)
Strong's atonement, reconciliation. From katallasso; exchange (figuratively, adjustment), i.e. Restoration to (the divine) favor -- atonement, reconciliation(-ing). see GREEK katallasso |
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