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Revised Standard Version

Hebrews 5:10

being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchiz'edek.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus Continued;   Melchizedek;   Priest;   The Topic Concordance - Jesus Christ;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Dead Sea Scrolls;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Zechariah, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Forerunner;   Hebrews;   Obedience;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hebrews, Epistle to;   Melchizedek;   Number;   Priest;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Ascension;   Character of Christ;   Grief ;   Hebrews Epistle to the;   High Priest (2);   Priest (2);   Psalms (2);   Type;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Melchisedec, Melchizedek ;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Christ, Offices of;   Ezra;   Hebrews, Epistle to the;   Melchizedek;   Order;   Priest, High;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
God made him high priest, just like Melchizedek.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and is called of God an hye prest after the order of Melchisedech.
Hebrew Names Version
named by God a Kohen Gadol after the order of Malki-Tzedek.
New American Standard Bible
being designated by God as High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
New Century Version
In this way God made Jesus a high priest, a priest like Melchizedek.
Update Bible Version
named of God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
Webster's Bible Translation
Called by God a high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
English Standard Version
being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
World English Bible
named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Called of God an high priest, after the order of Melchisedek.
Weymouth's New Testament
For God Himself addresses Him as a High Priest for ever, belonging to the order of Melchizedek.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
bi the ordre of Melchisedech.
English Revised Version
named of God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
Berean Standard Bible
and was designated by God as high priest in the order of Melchizedek.
Contemporary English Version
This is because God chose him to be a high priest like Melchizedek.
Amplified Bible
being designated by God as High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
American Standard Version
named of God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
Bible in Basic English
Being named by God a high priest of the order of Melchizedek.
Complete Jewish Bible
since he had been proclaimed by God as a cohen gadol to be compared with Malki-Tzedek .
Darby Translation
addressed by God [as] high priest according to the order of Melchisedec.
International Standard Version
having been designated by God to be a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.Hebrews 5:6; 6:20;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
and was named by God, The High Priest after the likeness of Malki-Zedek.
Murdock Translation
And he was named of God, the High Priest after the likeness of Melchisedec.
King James Version (1611)
Called of God an high Priest after the order of Melchisedec:
New Living Translation
And God designated him to be a High Priest in the order of Melchizedek.
New Life Bible
In God's plan He was to be a Religious Leader Who made the way for man to go to God. He was like Melchizedek.
New Revised Standard
having been designated by God a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And is called of God an hie Priest after the order of Melchisedec.
George Lamsa Translation
So he was called by God, a high priest after the order of Mel-chis''e-dec.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Being addressed by God as high-priest - according to the rank of Melchizedek.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Called by God a high priest, according to the order of Melchisedech.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And is called of God an hye priest after the order of Melchisedech.
Good News Translation
and God declared him to be high priest, in the priestly order of Melchizedek.
Christian Standard Bible®
and he was declared by God a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
King James Version
Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
Lexham English Bible
being designated by God a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
Literal Translation
having been called out by God as a High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
Young's Literal Translation
having been addressed by God a chief priest, according to the order of Melchisedek,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and is called of God an hye prest after the order of Melchisedech.
Mace New Testament (1729)
God having declared him an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
New English Translation
and he was designated by God as high priest in the order of Melchizedek .
New King James Version
called by God as High Priest "according to the order of Melchizedek,"
Simplified Cowboy Version
God made him the last trail guide on the trail that Melchizedek started.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
being designated by God as a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
Legacy Standard Bible
being designated by God as a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.

Contextual Overview

10 being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchiz'edek. 11 About this we have much to say which is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need some one to teach you again the first principles of God's word. You need milk, not solid food; 13 for every one who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a child. 14 But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their faculties trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hebrews 5:5, Hebrews 5:6, Hebrews 6:20

Reciprocal: Genesis 14:18 - the priest Exodus 29:9 - the priest's Hebrews 7:11 - another Hebrews 7:17 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Called of God an high priest, after the order of Melchisedec. על דברתי, according to what is said of him,

Psalms 110:4 there is a resemblance between Melchizedek and Christ; many things that are said of the one, agree with the other: there is a likeness in Melchizedek to Christ; in his person, and what is said of him, that he was without father and mother; and in his office as a priest, and in the manner of his instalment into it; and in the antiquity, dignity, and perpetuity of it: and this is repeated for the further confirmation of Christ's priesthood, and is a conclusion of the truth of it from sufficient evidence: this does not so much design the constitution of Christ as priest, nor the call of him to that office, as the denomination or surnaming of him a priest of Melchizedek's order, because of the agreement between them; and contains a reason of Christ's being the author of eternal salvation, because he is a priest for ever; and prevents any objections against Christ's priesthood, and opens a way to discourse more largely concerning it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Called of God - Addressed by him, or greeted by him. The word used here does not mean that he was “appointed” by God, or “called” to the office, in the sense in which we often use the word, but simply that he was “addressed” as such, to wit, in Psalms 110:1-7;

An high priest - In the Septuagint Psalms 110:4, and in Hebrews 5:6, above, it is rendered “priest” - ἱερεύς hiereus - but the Hebrew word - כהן kohēn - is often used to denote the high priest, and may mean either; see Septuagint in Leviticus 4:3. Whether the word “priest,” or “high priest,” be used here, does not affect the argument of the apostle. “After the order of Melchizedek.” see the notes at Hebrews 5:6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hebrews 5:10. Called of God a high priest — προσαγορευθεις. Being constituted, hailed, and acknowledged to be a high priest. In Hesychius we find προσαγορευει, which he translates ασπαζεται. hence we learn that one meaning of this word is to salute; as when a man was constituted or anointed king, those who accosted him would say, Hail king! On this verse Dr. Macknight has the following note, with the insertion of which the reader will not be displeased: "As our Lord, in his conversation with the Pharisees, recorded Matthew 22:43, spake of it as a thing certain of itself, and universally known and acknowledged by the Jews, that David wrote the 110th Psalm by inspiration, concerning the Christ or Messiah; the apostle was well founded in applying the whole of that Psalm to Jesus. Wherefore, having quoted the fourth verse, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec, as directed to Messiah, David's Lord, he justly termed that speech of the Deity a salutation of Jesus, according to the true import of the word προσαγορευθεις, which properly signifies to address one by his name, or title, or office; accordingly Hesychius explains προσαγορευομαι by ασπαζομαι. Now, that the deep meaning of this salutation may be understood, I observe, First, that, by the testimony of the inspired writers, Jesus sat down at the right hand of God when he returned to heaven, after having finished his ministry upon earth; Mark 16:19; Acts 7:56; Hebrews 1:3; Hebrews 8:1; 1 Peter 3:22. Not, however, immediately, but after that he had offered the sacrifice of himself in heaven, by presenting his crucified body before the presence of God; Hebrews 1:3; Hebrews 10:10. Secondly, I observe, that God's saluting Messiah a priest after the order of Melchisedec, being mentioned in the psalm after God is said to have invited him to sit at his right hand, it is reasonable to think the salutation was given him after he had offered the sacrifice of himself; and had taken his seat at God's right hand. Considered in this order, the salutation of Jesus, as a priest after the order of Melchisedec, was a public declaration on the part of God that he accepted the sacrifice of himself, which Jesus then offered, as a sufficient atonement for the sin of the world, and approved of the whole of his ministrations on earth, and confirmed all the effects of that meritorious sacrifice, And whereas we are informed in the psalm that, after God had invited his Son, in the human nature; to sit at his right hand as Governor of the world, and foretold the blessed fruits of his government, he published the oath by which he made him a Priest for ever, before he sent him into the world to accomplish the salvation of mankind; and declared that he would never repent of that oath: The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent; Thou art a Priest for ever after the similitude of Melchisedec. It was, in effect, a solemn publication of the method in which God would pardon sinners; and a promise that the effects of his Son's government as a King, and of his ministrations as a Priest, should be eternal; see Hebrews 6:20. Moreover, as this solemn declaration of the dignity of the Son of God, as a King and a Priest for ever in the human nature, was made in the hearing of the angelical hosts, it was designed for this instruction, that they might understand their subordination to God's Son, and pay him that homage that is due to him as Governor of the world, and as Saviour of the human race; Philippians 2:9; Philippians 2:10; Hebrews 1:6. The above explanation of the import of God's saluting Jesus a Priest for ever, is founded on the apostle's reasonings in the seventh and following chapters, where he enters into the deep meaning of the oath by which that salutation was conferred."


 
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