Dict: easton - Mercy

easton:

Mercy @ compassion for the miserable. Its object is misery. By the atoning sacrifice of Christ a way is open for the exercise of mercy towards the sons of men, in harmony with the demands of truth and righteousness kjv@Genesis:19:19; kjv@Exodus:20:6 kjv@Exodus:34:6-7; kjv@Psalms:85:10 kjv@Psalms:86:15-16). In Christ mercy and truth meet together. Mercy is also a Christian grace kjv@Matthew:5:7 kjv@Matthew:18:33-35).

Mercy-seat @ (Heb. kapporeth, a "covering;" LXX. and N.T., hilasterion; Vulg., propitiatorium), the covering or lid of the ark of the covenant (q.v.). It was of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, or perhaps rather a plate of solid gold, 2 1/2 cubits long and 1 1/2 broad kjv@Exodus:25:17 kjv@Exodus:30:6 kjv@Exodus:31:7 ). It is compared to the throne of grace kjv@Hebrews:9:5; kjv@Ephesians:2:6). The holy of holies is called the "place of the mercy-seat" ( kjv@1Chronicles:28:11: kjv@Leviticus:16:2). It has been conjectured that the censer (thumiaterion, meaning "anything having regard to or employed in the burning of incense") mentioned in kjv@Hebrews:9:4 was the "mercy-seat," at which the incense was burned by the high priest on the great day of atonement, and upon or toward which the blood of the goat was sprinkled kjv@Leviticus:16:11-16; comp. kjv@Numbers:7:89 and kjv@Exodus:25:22).