ΜελχισεδέκMelchisedék
Melchizedek: Hebrews 5:6, Hebrews 5:10, Hebrews 6:20, Hebrews 7:1, Hebrews 7:10, Hebrews 7:11, Hebrews 7:15, Hebrews 7:17.
Greek (New Testament) · G3198
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 8 times in the Bible.
- Hebrews 5:6 And in another passage God said to him, “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
- Hebrews 5:10 And God designated him to be a High Priest in the order of Melchizedek.
- Hebrews 6:20 Jesus has already gone in there for us. He has become our eternal High Priest in the order of Melchizedek.
- Hebrews 7:1 This Melchizedek was king of the city of Salem and also a priest of God Most High. When Abraham was returning home after winning a great battle against the kings, Melchizedek met him and blessed him.
- Hebrews 7:10 For although Levi wasn’t born yet, the seed from which he came was in Abraham’s body when Melchizedek collected the tithe from him.
- Hebrews 7:11 So if the priesthood of Levi, on which the law was based, could have achieved the perfection God intended, why did God need to establish a different priesthood, with a priest in the order of Melchizedek instead of the order of Levi and Aaron?
Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.