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Hebrews 8:2

A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

KJV

τῶν ἁγίων λειτουργὸς καὶ τῆς σκηνῆς τῆς ἀληθινῆς, ἣν ἔπηξεν ὁ κύριος, οὐκ ἄνθρωπος.

Greek NT

sanctorum minister, et tabernaculi veri, quod fixit Dominus, et non homo.

Vulgate

a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

ASV

A minister of the holies and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord hath pitched, and not man.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
λειτουργός
leitourgos
noun · 5×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
πήγνυμι
pegnumi
verb · 1×
σκηνή
skene
noun · 20×
ἀληθινός
alethinos
adjective · 28×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἅγιος
agios
adjective · 233×
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: οὐκ | WH/Treg/NIV: οὐκ | RP: καὶ οὐκ
  • οὐκSBLGNT
  • οὐκWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • καὶ οὐκRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

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Historic Christian voices

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

§1070In the New Testament the word "liturgy" refers not only to the celebration of divine worship but also to the proclamation of the Gospel and to active charity.6 In all of these situations it is a question of the service of God and neighbor. In a liturgical celebration the Church is servant in the image of her Lord, the one "leitourgos";7 she shares in Christ's priesthood (worshi…

Cross-references

  • 2Cor 5:1 — For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
  • Exod 33:7 — And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which sought the LORD went
  • Exod 36:1 — Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all t
  • Heb 9:1 — Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
  • Heb 9:23 — It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
  • Heb 9:24 — For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
  • John 2:21 — But he spake of the temple of his body.
  • John 6:55 — For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
  • Rom 15:8 — Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers: