What Does “Propitious” Mean in the Bible?
Ready to help and to treat with kindness. “Be propitious” means “help us, have compassion on us.”
A detail
- In the Bible: Abraham’s servant prayed that God would be kind to him and show him the wife for Isaac.
Where it appears in the Bible
Genesis 24:12; Genesis 24:27
What the Bible says
Genesis 24:12
O Lord the God of my master Abraham, meet me today, I beseech thee, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
Genesis 24:27
Saying: Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath not taken away his mercy and truth from my master, and hath brought me the straight way into the house of my master’s brother.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Dictionary.com, “propitious”