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Hebrews 9:3

And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;

KJV

μετὰ δὲ τὸ δεύτερον καταπέτασμα σκηνὴ ἡ λεγομένη ἅγια ἁγίων,

Greek NT

Post velamentum autem secundum, tabernaculum, quod dicitur Sancta sanctorum :

Vulgate

And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of holies;

ASV

And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies:

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
δεύτερος
deuteros
adjective · 42×
καταπέτασμα
katapetasma
noun · 6×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
μετά
meta
preposition · 469×
σκηνή
skene
noun · 20×
ἅγιος
agios
adjective · 233×
o
article · 19778×

Intertextual echoes

This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.

  • Exod 26:33 · allusion
    "And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy."
    Exodus: the veil separating the Holy Place from the Most Holy

Textual variants

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

minor
SBLGNT: Ἅγια Ἁγίων | WH/NIV/RP: Ἅγια Ἁγίων | Treg: τὰ ἅγια τῶν ἁγίων
  • Ἅγια ἉγίωνSBLGNT
  • Ἅγια ἉγίωνWestcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
  • τὰ ἅγια τῶν ἁγίωνTregelles
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

The priests indeed are good, but the High Priest is better; to whom the holy of holies has been committed, and who alone has been trusted with the secrets of God. He is the door of the Father, by which enter in Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the prophets, and the apostles, and the Church. All these have for their object the attaining to the unity of God.

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 6:16 — And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.
  • 1Kgs 8:6 — And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims.
  • 2Chr 3:8 — And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six
  • 2Chr 3:14 — And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
  • Exod 26:31 — And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:
  • Exod 40:3 — And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail.
  • Exod 40:21 — And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the LORD commanded Moses.
  • Ezek 41:4 — So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place.
  • Heb 6:19 — Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
  • Heb 9:8 — The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
  • Heb 9:8 — The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
  • Heb 10:19 — Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
  • Heb 10:20 — By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
  • Lev 16:2 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will
  • Lev 16:15 — Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the m
  • Luke 23:45 — And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
  • Mark 15:38 — And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.
  • Matt 27:51 — And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
  • Matt 27:51 — And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
  • Num 4:5 — And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it: