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Hebrews 7:11

If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

KJV

Εἰ μὲν οὖν τελείωσις διὰ τῆς Λευειτικῆς ἱερωσύνης ἦν, ὁ λαὸς γὰρ ἐπ’ αὐτῆς νενομοθέτηται, τίς ἔτι χρεία κατὰ τὴν τάξιν Μελχισεδὲκ ἕτερον ἀνίστασθαι ἱερέα καὶ οὐ κατὰ τὴν τάξιν Ἀαρὼν λέγεσθαι;

Greek NT

Si ergo consummatio per sacerdotium Leviticum erat (populus enim sub ipso legem accepit) quid adhuc necessarium fuit secundum ordinem Melchisedech, alium surgere sacerdotem, et non secundum ordinem Aaron dici ?

Vulgate

Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it hath the people received the law), what further need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be reckoned after the order of Aaron?

ASV

If then perfection was by the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need was there that another priest should rise according to the order of Melchisedech: and not be called according to the order of Aaron?

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People AaronMelchizedek

In the original Greek

27 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Λευϊτικός
leuitikos
adjective · 1×
Μελχισεδέκ
melchisedek
noun · 8×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
διά
dia
preposition · 633×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κατά
kata
preposition · 470×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
λαός
laos
noun · 144×
μέν
men
particle · 177×
νομοθετέω
nomotheteo
verb · 2×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
τάξις
taxis
noun · 9×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
τελείωσις
teleiosis
noun · 2×
χρεία
chreia
noun · 49×
ἀνίστημι
anistemi
verb · 107×
Ἀαρών
aaron
noun · 5×
ἐπί
epi
preposition · 888×
ἔτι
eti
adverb · 94×
ἕτερος
eteros
adjective · 99×
ἱερεύς
iereus
noun · 33×
ἱερωσύνη
ierosune
noun · 3×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: αὐτῆς | WH/Treg/NIV: αὐτῆς | RP: αὐτῇ
  • αὐτῆς — SBLGNT
  • αὐτῆς — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • αὐτῇ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: νενομοθέτηται | WH/Treg/NIV: νενομοθέτηται | RP: νενομοθέτητο
  • νενομοθέτηται — SBLGNT
  • νενομοθέτηται — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • νενομοθέτητο — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Covenant

Historic Christian voices

9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§1537The word order in Roman antiquity designated an established civil body, especially a governing body. Ordinatio means incorporation into an ordo. In the Church there are established bodies which Tradition, not without a basis in Sacred Scripture,4 has since ancient times called taxeis (Greek) or ordines. and so the liturgy speaks of the ordo episcoporum, the ordo presbyterorum, …
1. If therefore (he says) perfection were by the Levitical priesthood. Having spoken concerning Melchisedec, and shown how much superior he was to Abraham, and having set forth the great difference between them, he begins from this point forward to prove the wide difference as to the covenant itself, and how the one is imperfect and the other perfect. However he does not even y…
1. Paul mixes the lowly things with the lofty, ever imitating his Master, so that the lowly become the path to the lofty, and through the former we are led to the latter, and when we are amid the great things we learn that these [lowly ones] were a condescension. This accordingly he does here also. After declaring that He offered up Himself, and showing Him to be a High Priest,…
Chapter 5.—Of Those Things Which a Man of God Spake by the Spirit to Eli the Priest, Signifying that the Priesthood Which Had Been Appointed According to Aaron Was to Be Taken Away. But this is said more plainly by a man of God sent to Eli the priest himself, whose name indeed is not mentioned, but whose office and ministry show him to have been indubitably a prophet. For it is…
'The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou at My right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool.' See Ps. cx. 1 and Matt. xxii. 44 and Acts ii. 34-35 and Heb. i. 13. David in spirit calls Him Lord, of whom he was himself the father according to the flesh. See Matt. xxii. 43-45. Therefore Christ is both David's Lord and David's Son: David's Son according to the flesh, David's L…

Cross-references

  • 1Chr 6:49 — But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the work of the place most holy, and to make an atonement for Israel, accor
  • 1Chr 24:19 — These were the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the LORD, according to their manner, under Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.
  • Acts 6:14 — For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.
  • Gal 2:21 — I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
  • Gal 2:21 — I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
  • Gal 3:25 — But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
  • Gal 4:9 — But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
  • Heb 5:6 — As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
  • Heb 6:1 — Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
  • Heb 7:13 — For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.
  • Heb 7:15 — And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,
  • Heb 7:17 — For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
  • Heb 7:18 — For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
  • Heb 7:21 — (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)
  • Heb 7:26 — For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
  • Heb 8:4 — For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:
  • Heb 8:7 — For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
  • Heb 8:7 — For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
  • Heb 8:10 — For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, an
  • Heb 8:13 — In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
  • Ps 110:4 — The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.