καταλλάσσω

katallavssw katallavssw; 1 aorist participle
katallaxa"; 2 aorist passive
kathllavghn; properly, to change, exchange, as coins for others of equal value; hence, to reconcile (those who are at variance):
tina", as
touv"
Qhbaiou"
kaiv
touv"
Plataiea", Herodotus 6, 108;
kathllaxan
sfea"
oiJ
Parioi, 5, 29; Aristotle, oecon. 2, 15, 9 (p. 1348b, 9)
kathvllaxen
aujtouv"
prov"
ajllhvlou"; passive
tivni, to return into favor with, be reconciled to, one, Euripides, Iph. Aul. 1157; Plato, rep. 8, p. 566 e.;
prov"
ajllhvlou", Thucydides 4, 59; but the passive is used also where only one ceases to be angry with another and receives him into favor; thus
katallagei", received by Cyrus into favor, Xenophon, an. 1, 6, 1;
katallavttetai
prov"
aujthvn, regained her favor, Josephus, Antiquities 5, 2, 8; and, on the other hand, God is said
katallagh'nai
tivni, with whom he ceases to be offended, to whom he grants his favor anew, whose sins he pardons, ; ; ; Josephus, Antiquities 6, 7, 4 cf. 7, 8, 4 (so
ejpikatallavttesqai
tivni, Clement of Rome, , ). In the N. T. God is said
katallavssein
eJautw'/
tina, to receive one into his favor (A. V. reconcile one to himself), f (where in the added participles two arguments are adduced which prove that God has done this: first, that he does not impute to men their trespasses; second, that he has deposited the doctrine of reconciliation in the souls of the preachers of the gospel);
katallagh'nai
tw'/
Qew'/, to be restored to the favor of God, to recover God's favor, (but see
ejcqrov", 2);
katallavghte
tw'/
Qew'/, allow yourselves to be reconciled to God; do not oppose your return into his favor, but lay hold of that favor now offered you, . of a woman:
katallaghvtw
tw'/
ajndriv, let her return into harmony with (A. V. be reconciled to) her husband, . Cf. Fritzsche on Romans, vol. i., p. 276ff (who shows (in opposition to Tittmann, N. T. Synonyms, , et al.) that
katallavssw and
diallavssw are used promiscuously; the prepositions merely intensify (in slightly different modes) the meaning of the simple verb, and there is no evidence that one compound is stronger than the other;
diallavssw and its derivatives are more common in Attic,
katallavssw and its derivatives in later writers. Compare:
ajpokatallavssw.