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Strong's #2643: katallage (pronounced kat-al-lag-ay')

from 2644; exchange (figuratively, adjustment), i.e. restoration to (the divine) favor:--atonement, reconciliation(-ing).




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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katallagē

1) exchange

1a) of the business of money changers, exchanging equivalent values

2) adjustment of a difference, reconciliation, restoration to favour

2a) in the NT of the restoration of the favour of God to sinners that repent and put their trust in the expiatory death of Christ

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G2644

Citing in TDNT: 1:258, 40




Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

Romans 5:11: "we have now received the atonement."
Romans 11:15: "the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving"
2 Corinthians 5:18: "to us the ministry of reconciliation;"
2 Corinthians 5:19: "us the word of reconciliation."









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