mercy seat
Covenant chest cover
The mercy seat is the gold lid of the Ark of the Covenant in Hebrew scripture, where God was believed to appear and where the high priest sprinkled sacrificial blood on the Day of Atonement.
In Christian theology, the term extends to Christ as the place of atonement.
The phrase also appears for the electric chair or execution chamber, and as a metaphor for any place of judgment, forgiveness, or divine encounter: He came to the mercy seat seeking pardon.
Act of placating deity
- expiationRedress for offense
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
- bloodBody's oxygen carrier
- sin offeringSacrifice for wrongdoing
Yom Kippur · Leviticus · scapegoat · purification · covering · sprinkling · Day of Atonement · reconciliation
Official release from punishment
- clemencyMerciful treatment of offenders
- compassionConcern for others' distress
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
- reprievePostponement of punishment
absolution · amnesty · forbearance · leniency · reconciliation · remission · exoneration · acquittal
propitiation
Act of placating deity
sin offering · Yom Kippur · Leviticus · scapegoat · purification · covering · sprinkling · Day of Atonement · reconciliation · substitution
pardon
Official release from punishment
- clemencyMerciful treatment of offenders
- compassionConcern for others' distress
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
reprieve · absolution · amnesty · forbearance · leniency · reconciliation · remission · exoneration · acquittal · indulgence
ark
Large rescue vessel
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
- tabletsFlat portable computing devices
- lawBinding principle or regulation
promise · oath · bond · compact · agreement · treaty · pledge · vow · commandments · witness
- atonementpropitiation, substitution, reconciler, forgiveness, sin offering
- church furnishingsaltar cloth, pew, altar rail, baptismal font, pews
- Judgment Dayjudgment day, final judgment, day of reckoning, doomsday, second coming
- Mosaic lawMoses, Mosaic law, Ten Commandments, tablets of stone, commandment
- Salvation Armyred kettles, bell ringers, thrift stores, Salvationist, kettles
- divine mercydivine compassion, divine grace, lovingkindness, loving kindness, steadfast love
mercy seatelectric chair
Electrocution execution device
death chair · execution chamber · gallows · gas chamber · hot seat
mercy, seat, mercies, merciful, mercifully, merciless, mercilessly, unmerciful, seats