Hebrews 4:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Having then a great high priest, who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἔχοντες οὖν ἀρχιερέα μέγαν, διεληλυθότα τοὺς οὐρανούς, Ἰησοῦν τὸν Υἱὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ, κρατῶμεν τῆς ὁμολογίας.

Transliteration

Having therefore archierea megan, having dielēlythota the ouranous, Iēsoun the Yion of Theou, let us kratōmen the homologias.

Grammar Details

• *archierea*: accusative masculine singular - high priest
• *megan*: accusative masculine singular - great
• *dielēlythota*: perfect active participle, accusative masculine singular - having passed through
• *ouranous*: accusative masculine plural - heavens
• *Iēsoun*: accusative masculine singular - Jesus
• *Yion*: accusative masculine singular - Son
• *Theou*: genitive masculine singular - of God
• *kratōmen*: present active subjunctive, 1st person plural - let us hold fast
• *homologias*: genitive feminine singular - confession/profession

Word Meanings

• *archierea*: high priest/chief priest
• *megan*: great/large/mighty
• *dielēlythota*: having passed through/gone through/traversed
• *ouranous*: heavens/skies
• *Iēsoun*: Jesus
• *Yion*: Son/descendant
• *Theou*: God/deity
• *kratōmen*: hold fast/hold firmly/seize/grasp
• *homologias*: confession/profession/acknowledgment

Referenced Verses

• Heb 6:20 : 20 whither as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
• Heb 8:1 : 1 Now in the things which we are saying the chief point [is this]: We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
• Heb 2:17-3:1 : 17 Wherefore it behooved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. 18 For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted. 1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, [even] Jesus;
• Eph 4:10 : 10 He that descended is the same also that ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)
• Heb 1:2-3 : 2 hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in [his] Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds; 3 who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had {G1223} {G1438} made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
• Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ entered {G1525} not into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:
• Heb 10:23 : 23 let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for he is faithful that promised:
• Heb 12:2 : 2 looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of [our] faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• Heb 10:12 : 12 but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
• Heb 1:8 : 8 but of the Son [he saith], Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; And the sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
• Heb 2:1 : 1 Therefore {G5124} we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest haply we drift away [from them].
• Heb 3:5-6 : 5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken; 6 but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto the end.
• Heb 3:14 : 14 for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:
• Acts 3:21 : 21 whom the heaven {G3303} must receive until the times of restoration of all things, whereof God spake by the mouth of {G3956} His holy prophets that have been from of old.
• Rom 8:34 : 34 who is he that condemneth? It is Christ Jesus that died, yea rather, that was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
• Heb 9:12 : 12 nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption.
• Heb 7:25-26 : 25 Wherefore also he is able to save to the uttermost them that draw near unto God through him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. 26 For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
• Mark 1:1 : 1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
• Mark 16:19 : 19 So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken unto them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
• Luke 24:51 : 51 And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he parted from them, and was carried up into heaven.
• Acts 1:11 : 11 who also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye looking into heaven? this Jesus, who was received up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye beheld him going into heaven.