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Priest
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Priest names 3 things on this site
- Priest, a heading of the topical index.A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- Priest Forever After Melchizedek, a messianic prophecy.An everlasting priesthood requires an eternally living priest. The prophecy that Messiah would be priest 'for ever' necessitates resurrection and perpetual life, since death…
- Priest After Melchizedek's Order, a messianic prophecy.The Messiah would be an eternal priest of a different order than Aaron.
Featured studies
13 results- StudyThe PriestA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyIota (Ιι): the Greek letterThe jot Jesus named: the smallest letter, doing the biggest job.
- StudyKaf (כ): the Hebrew letterThe open palm: glory, priesthood, and the word for covering over.
- StudyMelchizedek: the King-Priest of SalemThree texts a thousand years apart (Genesis 14, Psalm 110, Hebrews 7) and the whole case that a man from Judah is our High Priest.
- StudyThe TabernacleSeven elements of the Mosaic Tabernacle mapped to their explicit New Testament fulfillment: Hebrews 8:5 calls the whole structure a shadow of heavenly things.
Verses
855 results- Verse2 Samuel 20:26and Ira the Jairite was David’s priest.
- VerseEzekiel 44:21No priest may drink wine before he enters the inner court.
- VerseJeremiah 29:29(Zephaniah the priest, however, had read this letter to Jeremiah the prophet.)
- VerseJohn 18:19Meanwhile, the high priest questioned Jesus about His disciples and His teaching.
- VerseJob 12:19He leads priests away barefoot and overthrows the established.
People
15 results- PersonJoshua the high priestSon of Josedech, first high priest of the return (Ezra 2:2; Hag 1:1) — cleansed of filthy garments before the Angel of the LORD with Satan standing to accuse (Zech 3), then…
- PersonMelchizedekKing of Salem and priest of the Most High God, without recorded genealogy, who brings out bread and wine — the type of Christ's eternal priesthood (Heb 7; Ps 110:4).
- PersonCaiaphasThe high priest who counseled "that one man should die for the people" — an unwitting prophecy of the atonement (John 11:49-52; 18:14).
- PersonAnnasFormer high priest and father-in-law of Caiaphas, before whom Jesus was first examined (John 18:13,19-24).
- PersonAaronBrother of Moses and Israel's first high priest; his rod budded, his garments were for glory and beauty, and his line carried the priesthood until the greater Priest after…
Places
1 resultWords (Strong's)
23 results- WordH3549 כָּהֵן · kâhên (Hebrew){one officiating, a priest. The Hebrew word stands 8 times in the original text.
- WordG2409 ἱερεύς · hiereús (Greek)a priest (literally or figuratively). The Greek word stands 30 times in the original text.
- WordH3548 כֹּהֵן · kôhên (Hebrew)literally one officiating, a priest. The Hebrew word stands 750 times in the original text.
- WordH3547 כָּהַן · kâhan (Hebrew)to officiate as a priest. The Hebrew word stands 23 times in the original text.
- WordG749 ἀρχιερεύς · archiereús (Greek)the high-priest (literally, of the Jews, typically, Christ). The Greek word stands 122 times in the original text.
Themes
4 results- ThemeWisdomWisdom in Scripture (Hebrew *hokmah*, H2451) is skilled living before God, not accumulated information. Its first appearances are not proverbs but craftsmen: the wise-hearted…
- ThemeWorshipScripture's worship vocabulary carries two roots held together: *shachah* (to bow down, prostrate) and *abad* (to serve, to labor for). *Shachah* is first rendered "worship" at…
- ThemeHolinessHoliness begins as a claim about God before it becomes a summons to His people. The Hebrew *qadosh* carries a double sense — "set apart" and "whole, intact" — and Leviticus…
- ThemePrayerPrayer enters the canon as a corporate act, not a private technique: "then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah" (Genesis 4:26) describes a community, not a method. The…
Topics
1 resultProphecies
4 results- ProphecyPriest Forever After MelchizedekAn everlasting priesthood requires an eternally living priest. The prophecy that Messiah would be priest 'for ever' necessitates resurrection and perpetual life, since death…
- ProphecyPriest After Melchizedek's OrderThe Messiah would be an eternal priest of a different order than Aaron.
- ProphecyA Priest Forever After MelchizedekThe Messiah would be a priest — not from Aaron's line (Levi) but from the eternal order of Melchizedek, who was both king and priest.
- ProphecyPriestly Intercession ContinuesA messianic prophecy: what was spoken, where it was written, and where the New Testament takes it up.
Apologetics
1 resultVoices
11 results- VoiceJohn Wesley# John Wesley (1703–1791) Anglican priest; founder of Methodism; field preacher; hymn-writer (with brother Charles); theologian of Christian perfection. His **Explanatory Notes…
- VoiceMenno SimonsMenno Simons was a Catholic priest in Friesland who admitted he had barely opened a Bible when doubts about the Mass drove him to read one. Searching Scripture, he could find…
- VoicePaulus OrosiusOrosius was born about 375 in Roman Spain, probably at Braga in the northwest, and became a priest there. Around 414 he fled — his own account speaks of barbarian invasion, and…
- VoiceJohn KnoxJohn Knox was a Scottish priest turned bodyguard turned preacher when a French fleet took the castle at St Andrews in 1547 and sent him to the galleys. He spent nineteen months…
- VoiceErasmus of RotterdamDesiderius Erasmus was born at Rotterdam, most likely on October 28, 1466 — he was vague about the year, and had reason to be. He was the illegitimate son of a priest and a…
Apocrypha (study resources)
161 results- Study resource2 Maccabees 1:30And the priests sung psalms of thanksgiving.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 12:20Areus king of the Lacedemonians to Onias the high priest, greeting:
- Study resource1 Maccabees 15:24And the copy hereof they wrote to Simon the high priest.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 16:12For he was the high priest’s son in law.
- Study resource1 Esdras 8:9King Artexerxes unto Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Lord sendeth greeting:
Doorways
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H3549כָּהֵן kâhên — {one officiating, a priestG2409ἱερεύς hiereús — a priest (literally or figuratively)H3548כֹּהֵן kôhên — literally one officiating, a priestH3547כָּהַן kâhan — to officiate as a priestG749ἀρχιερεύς archiereús — the high-priest (literally, of the Jews, typically,
Christ)H3649כָּמָר kâmâr — properly, an ascetic (as if shrunk with self-maceration), i.e. an idolatrous priest (only in plural)