G2596–κατά–kata

As he says in another place, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

κατὰ kata “according to”

Being named by God a high priest of the order of Melchizedek.

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For when God made his oath to Abraham, because there was no greater oath, he made it by himself,

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For men at all times make their oaths by what is greater; and any argument is ended by the decision of the oath.

κατὰ kata “by”

Where Jesus has gone before us, as a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

κατὰ kata “according to”

And it is true that by the law, those of the sons of Levi who have the position of priests may take a tenth part of the people's goods; that is to say, they take it from their brothers though these are the sons of Abraham.

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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

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And this is even more clear if a second priest has come up who is like Melchizedek,

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That is to say, not made by a law based on the flesh, but by the power of a life without end:

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For it has been witnessed of him, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

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And as this is not without the taking of an oath

καθ᾽ kath᾽ “to”

(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);

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By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus.

κατὰ kata “By”

Who has no need to make offerings for sins every day, like those high priests, first for himself, and then for the people; because he did this once and for ever when he made an offering of himself.

καθ᾽ kath᾽ “every”

If he had been on earth he would not have been a priest at all, because there are other priests who make the offerings ordered by the law;

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Being servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make everything like the design which you saw in the mountain.

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Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand, to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; for they did not keep the agreement with me, and I gave them up, says the Lord.

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And over it were the winged ones of glory with their wings covering the mercy-seat; about which it is not possible now to say anything in detail.

κατὰ kata “in”

And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean,

καθ᾽ kath᾽ “in”κατὰ kata “in regard to”

For when Moses had given all the rules of the law to the people, he took the blood of goats and young oxen, with water and red wool and hyssop, and put it on the book itself and on all the people,

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And by the law almost all things are made clean with blood, and without blood there is no forgiveness.

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And he did not have to make an offering of himself again and again, as the high priest goes into the holy place every year with blood which is not his;

κατ᾽ kat᾽ “every”

And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;

καθ᾽ kath᾽ “in”

For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.

κατ᾽ kat᾽ “each”

But year by year there is a memory of sins in those offerings.

κατ᾽ kat᾽ “every”