Hebrews 7:26

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

For such a chief priest did become us -- kind, harmless, undefiled, separate from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τοιοῦτος γὰρ ἡμῖν ἔπρεπεν ἀρχιερεύς, ὅσιος, ἄκακος, ἀμίαντος, κεχωρισμένος ἀπὸ τῶν ἁμαρτωλῶν, καὶ ὑψηλότερος τῶν οὐρανῶν γενόμενος·

Transliteration

For toioutos for us eprepen archiereus, hosios, akakos, amiantos, kechōrismenos from the hamartōlōn, and hypsēloteros than the ouranōn genomenos;

Grammar Details

• *toioutos*: demonstrative pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular - such
• *eprepen*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd person singular - was fitting
• *archiereus*: noun, nominative, masculine, singular - high priest
• *hosios*: adjective, nominative, masculine, singular - holy/devout
• *akakos*: adjective, nominative, masculine, singular - innocent/harmless
• *amiantos*: adjective, nominative, masculine, singular - undefiled
• *kechōrismenos*: perfect passive participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having been separated
• *hamartōlōn*: adjective used as noun, genitive, masculine, plural - sinners
• *hypsēloteros*: adjective, nominative, masculine, singular, comparative - higher
• *ouranōn*: noun, genitive, masculine, plural - heavens
• *genomenos*: aorist middle participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having become

Word Meanings

• *toioutos*: such/of such a kind
• *eprepen*: was fitting/was appropriate/was suitable
• *archiereus*: high priest/chief priest
• *hosios*: holy/devout/pious
• *akakos*: innocent/harmless/guileless
• *amiantos*: undefiled/unstained/pure
• *kechōrismenos*: having been separated/set apart/removed
• *hamartōlōn*: sinners/wrongdoers
• *hypsēloteros*: higher/more exalted/loftier
• *genomenos*: having become/having been made

Referenced Verses

• Heb 8:1 : 1 And the sum concerning the things spoken of `is': we have such a chief priest, who did sit down at the right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens,
• 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.
• Heb 4:14-15 : 14 Having, then, a great chief priest passed through the heavens -- Jesus the Son of God -- may we hold fast the profession, 15 for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but `one' tempted in all things in like manner -- apart from sin;
• 1 Pet 2:22 : 22 who did not commit sin, nor was guile found in his mouth,
• 1 John 3:5 : 5 and ye have known that he was manifested that our sins he may take away, and sin is not in him;
• 1 Pet 3:22 : 22 who is at the right hand of God, having gone on to heaven -- messengers, and authorities, and powers, having been subjected to him.
• 1 John 2:2 : 2 and he -- he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,
• Heb 7:11 : 11 If indeed, then, perfection were through the Levitical priesthood -- for the people under it had received law -- what further need, according to the order of Melchisedek, for another priest to arise, and not to be called according to the order of Aaron?
• Eph 1:20-22 : 20 which He wrought in the Christ, having raised him out of the dead, and did set `him' at His right hand in the heavenly `places', 21 far above all principality, and authority, and might, and lordship, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in the coming one; 22 and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him -- head over all things to the assembly,
• Eph 4:8-9 : 8 wherefore, he saith, `Having gone up on high he led captive captivity, and gave gifts to men,' -- 9 and that, he went up, what is it except that he also went down first to the lower parts of the earth? 10 he who went down is the same also who went up far above all the heavens, that He may fill all things --
• Phil 2:9-9 : 9 wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that `is' above every name, 10 that in the name of Jesus every knee may bow -- of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth -- 11 and every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ `is' Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
• Heb 1:3 : 3 who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might -- through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,
• Heb 2:10 : 10 For it was becoming to Him, because of whom `are' the all things, and through whom `are' the all things, many sons to glory bringing, the author of their salvation through sufferings to make perfect,
• Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
• Heb 9:23-26 : 23 `It is' necessary, therefore, the pattern indeed of the things in the heavens to be purified with these, and the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these; 24 for not into holy places made with hands did the Christ enter -- figures of the true -- but into the heaven itself, now to be manifested in the presence of God for us; 25 nor that he may many times offer himself, even as the chief priest doth enter into the holy places every year with blood of others; 26 since it had behoved him many times to suffer from the foundation of the world, but now once, at the full end of the ages, for putting away of sin through his sacrifice, he hath been manifested;
• Heb 10:11-22 : 11 and every priest, indeed, hath stood daily serving, and the same sacrifices many times offering, that are never able to take away sins. 12 And He, for sin one sacrifice having offered -- to the end, did sit down on the right hand of God, -- 13 as to the rest, expecting till He may place his enemies `as' his footstool, 14 for by one offering he hath perfected to the end those sanctified; 15 and testify to us also doth the Holy Spirit, for after that He hath said before, 16 `This `is' the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws on their hearts, and upon their minds I will write them,' 17 and `their sins and their lawlessness I will remember no more;' 18 and where forgiveness of these `is', there is no more offering for sin. 19 Having, therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, in the blood of Jesus, 20 which way he did initiate for us -- new and living, through the vail, that is, his flesh -- 21 and a high priest over the house of God, 22 may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water;
• Heb 12:2 : 2 looking to the author and perfecter of faith -- Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him -- did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;
• 1 Pet 1:19 : 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted -- Christ's --
• Exod 28:36 : 36 `And thou hast made a flower of pure gold, and hast opened on it -- openings of a signet -- `Holy to Jehovah;'
• Ps 68:18 : 18 Thou hast ascended on high, Thou hast taken captive captivity, Thou hast taken gifts for men, That even the refractory may rest, O Jah God.
• Isa 53:9 : 9 And it appointeth with the wicked his grave, And with the rich `are' his high places, Because he hath done no violence, Nor `is' deceit in his mouth.
• Matt 27:18 : 18 for he had known that because of envy they had delivered him up.
• Mark 16:19 : 19 The Lord, then, indeed, after speaking to them, was received up to the heaven, and sat on the right hand of God;
• Luke 1:35 : 35 And the messenger answering said to her, `The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, therefore also the holy-begotten thing shall be called Son of God;
• Luke 23:22 : 22 And he a third time said unto them, `Why, what evil did he? no cause of death did I find in him; having chastised him, then, I will release `him'.'
• Luke 23:41 : 41 and we indeed righteously, for things worthy of what we did we receive back, but this one did nothing out of place;'
• Luke 23:47 : 47 And the centurion having seen what was done, did glorify God, saying, `Really this man was righteous;'
• Luke 24:26 : 26 Was it not behoving the Christ these things to suffer, and to enter into his glory?'
• Luke 24:46 : 46 and he said to them -- `Thus it hath been written, and thus it was behoving the Christ to suffer, and to rise out of the dead the third day,
• John 8:29 : 29 and He who sent me is with me; the Father did not leave me alone, because I, the things pleasing to Him, do always.'
• John 14:30 : 30 I will no more talk much with you, for the ruler of this world doth come, and in me he hath nothing;
• Acts 3:14 : 14 and ye the Holy and Righteous One did deny, and desired a man -- a murderer -- to be granted to you,
• Acts 4:27 : 27 for gathered together of a truth against Thy holy child Jesus, whom Thou didst anoint, were both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and peoples of Israel,
• Rev 1:17-18 : 17 And when I saw him, I did fall at his feet as dead, and he placed his right hand upon me, saying to me, `Be not afraid; I am the First and the Last, 18 and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.
• Rev 3:7 : 7 `And to the messenger of the assembly in Philadelphia write: These things saith he who is holy, he who is true, he who is having the key of David, he who is opening and no one doth shut, and he shutteth and no one doth open!