noun · masculine
melchisedek
Strong’sG3198
Melchizedek
stem melchisedek-8 times in the New Testament2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
Μελχισεδέκ, indecl., ὁ (Heb. מַלְכִּי צֶדֶק),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3198 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmel-khis-ed-ek'
Melchisedek (i.e. Malkitsedek), a patriarch
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesMelchisedec.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Melchizedek:
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | melchisedek2×Μελχισέδεκ | melchisedek |
| object accusative | melchisedek | melchisedek |
| direct address vocative | melchisedek | melchisedek |
| of, belonging to genitive | melchisedek6×Μελχισέδεκ | melchisedek |
| to, for dative | melchisedek | melchisedek |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
8 occurrences, every one of them listed
melchisedek“Melchizedek”subjectnominative singular2×
Hebrews 7:1Houtos gar tos Melchisedek, basilevos Salēm, hierevos tou theou tou …This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest …
Hebrews 7:10… tou patrou ate hote sunantata auto Melchisedek.For when Melchizedek met Abraham, Levi was still in …
melchisedek“Melchizedek”of, belonging togenitive singular6×
Hebrews 5:6… eis ton aiōnon kata tan taxian Melchisedek,… priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
Hebrews 5:10… tou theou archierevos kata tan taxian Melchisedek.… high priest in the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 6:20… nu eiserchata Iēsus, kata tan taxian Melchisedek archierevos generantos eis ton aiōnon.… priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 7:11… tinas ēti chreias kata tan taxian Melchisedek heteron anastēorō hierevon kai ouk kata …… appear — one in the order of Melchizedek and not in the order of …
Hebrews 7:15… katadēlem atō, ei kata tan homoiotan Melchisedek anastēotō hierevos heteros,… more clear if another priest like Melchizedek appears,
Hebrews 7:17… eis ton aiōnon kata tan taxian Melchisedek.… priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”