Definitions for mercy-seat

mercy-seat mercy seat

Mercy-Seat is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 588 anagrams from letters in mercy-seat (-aceemrsty).

Definitions for mercy-seat

noun

  1. Bible. the gold covering on the ark of the covenant, regarded as the resting place of God. Ex. 25:17–22. the throne of God.
  2. South Midland and Southern U.S. mourners' bench.

Origin of mercy-seat

First recorded in 1520-30

Examples for mercy-seat

The spirit of prayer rested upon all of our several school boarding halls, and we felt that the mercy seat had come near.

His approaches to the mercy seat become lifeless and heartless.

But did this blood in reality atone for the sins of the people against that law which was concealed under the mercy seat?

And the ark of the testimony was to be brought within the vail, and the mercy seat put upon it in the most holy place.

The lid was made of gold, and was called the propitiatory,—in our version, "mercy seat."

The tables of stone were deposited in the ark, and covered over by the mercy seat.

Its lid, on which stood two figures of the cherubim, was called "the mercy seat."

He whom you mourn is not lost; he is gone to the mercy seat, and God will be gracious to him.'

And he made a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

The blood was to be taken even within the veil, and be sprinkled on the mercy seat itself over the tables of the broken law.

Word Value for mercy-seat
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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