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Hebrews 7 Bible study: With an oath

Hebrews 7 sets priests "made priests without an oath" beside "he with an oath" (7:21), and goes on, "By so much, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant" (7:22). The Greek noun behind oath there is in no other chapter of the New Testament.

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“Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.”
Hebrews 7:25 · World English Bible

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“Hebrews 7:27 sets sacrifices offered daily beside what he did once for all, when he offered up himself.”

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This Melchizedek

In the text

Favor's introduction to Hebrews gives this whole chapter one part, This Melchizedek. It opens with For, and with one long sentence: "For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, “king of righteousness”, and then also “king of Salem”, which means “king of peace”, without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually." (7:1-3). The meanings of the names are the letter's own, given in its own words in 7:2. These notes quote the three verses as the WEB prints them, and say no more about Melchizedek than their words.

Where the Old Testament leads here

A priest forever

In the text

Genesis 14:18leads toHebrews 7:1-3

Melchizedek, king and priest, brings out bread and wine and blesses Abram. Psalm 110 promises "a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek", and Hebrews says Melchizedek was "made like the Son of God" (7:3), pointing to Jesus, "a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek" (6:20).

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The Greek word behind it

ὁρκωμοσίαhorkomosiasay hor-ko-mos-EE-ah

Thayer: "affirmation made on oath, the taking of an oath, an oath". "Inasmuch as he was not made priest without the taking of an oath" (7:20): behind the taking of an oath is this noun. It is behind oath in "for they indeed have been made priests without an oath" (7:21) and "but he with an oath by him that says of him" (7:21), and in "but the word of the oath, which came after the law" (7:28). The New Testament has it four times, all in these verses (counted in RP2018, and in all eight editions TAGNT compares). Behind swore in 7:21 is another word, a verb.

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Hebrews 7 Bible study questions

  1. 1"a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God" (7:19). What helps you draw near to God in an ordinary week?
  2. 2"By so much, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant." (7:22). What does it mean to you that the letter calls Jesus a *guarantee*?
  3. 3"Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him" (7:25). Where in your life do you most need to hear these words?

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Last reviewed October 8, 2026. Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain. Hebrew and Greek words are checked against the original-language texts and public-domain lexicons. What we believe · Favor home