11 Now if it was possible for things to be made complete through the priests of the house of Levi (for the law was given to the people in connection with them), what need was there for another priest who was of the order of Melchizedek and not of the order of Aaron?
Source Text Study
Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Hebrews 7:11. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
How to read this study data
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Coverage: New Testament
Greek New Testament source layer with imported morphology.
Εἰ μὲν οὖν τελείωσις διὰ τῆς Λευϊτικῆς ἱερωσύνης ἦν — ὁ λαὸς γὰρ ἐπ᾿ αὐτῇ νενομοθέτητο — τίς ἔτι χρεία, κατὰ τὴν τάξιν Μελχισεδὲκ ἕτερον ἀνίστασθαι ἱερέα, καὶ οὐ κατὰ τὴν τάξιν Ἀαρὼν λέγεσθαι;
Εἰ
μὲν
οὖν
τελείωσις
διὰ
τῆς
Λευϊτικῆς
ἱερωσύνης
ἦν
ὁ
λαὸς
γὰρ
ἐπ᾿
αὐτῇ
νενομοθέτητο
- Lemma
- nenomoqethto
- Transliteration
- nenomoqethto
- Morphology
- Greek: verb pluperfect passive indicative singular
- Part of Speech
- verb
- Strong's
- G3549
- Occurrences
- 1
τίς
ἔτι
χρεία
κατὰ
τὴν
τάξιν
Μελχισεδὲκ
- Lemma
- melcisedek
- Transliteration
- melcisedek
- Morphology
- Greek: noun
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Strong's
- G3198
- Occurrences
- 9
ἕτερον
ἀνίστασθαι
- Lemma
- anistasqai
- Transliteration
- anistasqai
- Morphology
- Greek: verb present middle infinitive
- Part of Speech
- verb
- Strong's
- G450
- Occurrences
- 1
ἱερέα
καὶ
οὐ
κατὰ
τὴν
τάξιν
Ἀαρὼν
Coverage: New Testament sample / proof panel
Proof-of-flow source panel, not full coverage.
Εἰ μὲν οὖν τελείωσις διὰ τῆς Λευειτικῆς ἱερωσύνης ἦν, ὁ λαὸς γὰρ ἐπ’ αὐτῆς νενομοθέτηται, τίς ἔτι χρεία κατὰ τὴν τάξιν Μελχισεδὲκ ἕτερον ἀνίστασθαι ἱερέα καὶ οὐ κατὰ τὴν τάξιν Ἀαρὼν λέγεσθαι;
τῆς
ἦν,
ὁ
τὴν
Μελχισεδὲκ
- Lemma
- Μελχισεδέκ
- Morphology
- N-PRI
- Part of Speech
- N
- Strong's
- G3198
- Occurrences
- 8
καὶ
τὴν
Coverage: New Testament
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܐܠܘ ܗܟܝܠ ܓܡܝܪܘܬܐ ܒܝܕ ܟܘܡܪܘܬܐ ܕܠܘܝܐ ܐܝܬܝܗ ܗܘܬ ܕܒܗ ܣܝܡ ܢܡܘܣܐ ܠܥܡܐ ܠܡܢܐ ܡܬܒܥܐ ܗܘܐ ܟܘܡܪܐ ܐܚܪܢܐ ܕܢܩܘܡ ܒܕܡܘܬܗ ܕܡܠܟܝܙܕܩ ܐܡܪ ܕܝܢ ܕܒܕܡܘܬܗ ܕܐܗܪܘܢ ܢܗܘܐ
ܐܠܘ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܐܠܘ
- Transliteration
- 'lw
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 41
ܗܟܝܠ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܗܟܝܠ
- Transliteration
- hkyl
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 250
ܓܡܝܪܘܬܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܓܡܝܪܘܬܐ
- Transliteration
- gmyrwt'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 2
ܒܝܕ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܒܝܕ
- Transliteration
- byd
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition b-
- Occurrences
- 71
ܟܘܡܪܘܬܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܟܘܡܪܘܬܐ
- Transliteration
- kwmrwt'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 3
ܕܠܘܝܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܠܘܝܐ
- Transliteration
- dlwy'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 1
ܐܝܬܝܗ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܐܝܬܝܗ
- Transliteration
- 'ytyh
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 43
ܗܘܬ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܗܘܬ
- Transliteration
- hwt
- Morphology
- possible feminine singular, construct, or verbal ending
- Occurrences
- 248
ܕܒܗ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܒܗ
- Transliteration
- dbh
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 68
ܣܝܡ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܣܝܡ
- Transliteration
- sym
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 18
ܢܡܘܣܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܢܡܘܣܐ
- Transliteration
- nmws'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 114
ܠܥܡܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܠܥܡܐ
- Transliteration
- l'm'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 25
ܠܡܢܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܠܡܢܐ
- Transliteration
- lmn'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 45
ܡܬܒܥܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܡܬܒܥܐ
- Transliteration
- mtb''
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 11
ܗܘܐ
- Confidence
- medium preliminary Syriac rule/lexicon alignment
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac lexicon alignment. Useful for search and first-pass study; review before labeling as verified scholarship.
- Lemma
- ܗܘܐ
- Transliteration
- hwa
- Morphology
- verb, being/becoming root form
- Gloss
- was, became
- Occurrences
- 1535
ܟܘܡܪܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܟܘܡܪܐ
- Transliteration
- kwmr'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 27
ܐܚܪܢܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܐܚܪܢܐ
- Transliteration
- 'hrn'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 120
ܕܢܩܘܡ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܢܩܘܡ
- Transliteration
- dnqwm
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 5
ܒܕܡܘܬܗ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܒܕܡܘܬܗ
- Transliteration
- bdmwth
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition b-
- Occurrences
- 7
ܕܡܠܟܝܙܕܩ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܡܠܟܝܙܕܩ
- Transliteration
- dmlkyzdq
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 7
ܐܡܪ
- Confidence
- medium preliminary Syriac rule/lexicon alignment
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac lexicon alignment. Useful for search and first-pass study; review before labeling as verified scholarship.
- Lemma
- ܐܡܪ
- Transliteration
- emar
- Morphology
- verb root/form
- Gloss
- said, spoke
- Occurrences
- 885
ܕܝܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܝܢ
- Transliteration
- dyn
- Morphology
- possible plural/participle or finite verbal ending; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 1830
ܕܒܕܡܘܬܗ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܒܕܡܘܬܗ
- Transliteration
- dbdmwth
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 2
ܕܐܗܪܘܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܐܗܪܘܢ
- Transliteration
- d'hrwn
- Morphology
- possible masculine plural or verbal/pronominal ending; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 4
ܢܗܘܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܢܗܘܐ
- Transliteration
- nhw'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 198
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Si ergo consummatio per sacerdotium Leviticum erat (populus enim sub ipso legem accepit) quid adhuc necessarium fuit secundum ordinem Melchisedech, alium surgere sacerdotem, et non secundum ordinem Aaron dici?
si
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- si
- Transliteration
- si
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: subordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 1970
ergo
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- ergo
- Transliteration
- ergo
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 1237
consummatio
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- consummatio
- Transliteration
- consummatio
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 54
per
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- per
- Transliteration
- per
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
- Occurrences
- 1915
sacerdotium
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sacerdotium
- Transliteration
- sacerdotium
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 53
leviticum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- leuiticus
- Transliteration
- leviticum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 19
erat
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sum
- Transliteration
- erat
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 20614
populus
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- populus
- Transliteration
- populus
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 2030
enim
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- enim
- Transliteration
- enim
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 2392
sub
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sub
- Transliteration
- sub
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
- Occurrences
- 330
ipso
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- ipse
- Transliteration
- ipso
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 2134
legem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- lex
- Transliteration
- legem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 596
accepit
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- accipio
- Transliteration
- accepit
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 632
quid
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- quis
- Transliteration
- quid
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 1619
adhuc
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- adhuc
- Transliteration
- adhuc
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adverb
- Occurrences
- 271
necessarium
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- necessarius
- Transliteration
- necessarium
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 60
secundum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- secundum
- Transliteration
- secundum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
- Occurrences
- 529
ordinem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- ordo
- Transliteration
- ordinem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 71
Melchisedech
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- Melchisedech
- Transliteration
- Melchisedech
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: proper noun
- Occurrences
- 10
alium
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- alius
- Transliteration
- alium
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 577
surgere
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- surgo
- Transliteration
- surgere
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 421
sacerdotem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sacerdos
- Transliteration
- sacerdotem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 777
et
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- et
- Transliteration
- et
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Gloss
- and
- Part of Speech
- conjunction
- Definition
- and, also, even
- Etymology
- Basic Latin coordinating conjunction.
- Occurrences
- 50526
non
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- non
- Transliteration
- non
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adverb
- Occurrences
- 7320
secundum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- secundum
- Transliteration
- secundum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
- Occurrences
- 529
ordinem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- ordo
- Transliteration
- ordinem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 71
Aaron
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- Aaron
- Transliteration
- Aaron
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: proper noun
- Occurrences
- 322
dici
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- dico
- Transliteration
- dici
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 6477
Ranked cross references
Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.
Hebrews 8:7
For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second.
11 relevance votesGalatians 2:21
I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.
7 relevance votesGalatians 4:9
But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?
4 relevance votesHebrews 7:21
(For those were made priests without an oath, but this one was made a priest with an oath by him who says of him, The Lord gave his oath, which he will not take back, that you are a priest for ever);
3 relevance votesHebrews 5:6
As he says in another place, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
3 relevance votesHebrews 7:15
And this is even more clear if a second priest has come up who is like Melchizedek,
3 relevance votesHebrews 5:10
Being named by God a high priest of the order of Melchizedek.
2 relevance votesGalatians 4:3
So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;
2 relevance votesHebrews 6:20
Where Jesus has gone before us, as a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
2 relevance votes