What is the meaning of Melchizedek?

Answer 1

“{[my] king is Zedek [just]}”

Answer 2

Melchizedek, meaning king of righteousness, was the "king of Salem," later known as Jerusalem, and "priest of God Most High" - at a time prior to the establishment of the Levitical priesthood (see Levites). Melchizedek is one of the most enigmatic people of Bible History, not only because of his distinctive position as king and high priest of Jerusalem (a dual office that will ultimately be fulfilled only by Jesus Christ), but also because of other profound statements about him, such as in Hebrews that "he is without father or mother or genealogy, and has neither beginning of days nor end of life." A Jewish speculative tradition holds that Melchizedek was actually Noah's son Shem who may have survived to that time, but Shem obviously did have a recorded father, Noah, and a beginning of days since Shem's age is mentioned in the Hebrew Scriptures, or "Old" Testament (a factor that the non-Christian Jewish point of view, which does not include the New Testament, does not take into consideration). So who was Melchizedek? Or more precisely, in terms of Who he foreshadowed, what (a function doesn't have parents, a birth or a death, but all people do) was Melchizedek?

Answer 3

There has been a lot of confusion over the meaning of the seventh chapter of Hebrews. The recent position of most of the Churches of God has been that the Logos was Melchizedek before his human incarnation as Jesus in the first century A.D. A close examination of this Scripture is necessary to understand what the author of Hebrews was really trying to say.

The overall purpose of Hebrews 7 is to explain that for Jewish Christians, the Levitical priesthood had been superceded. To illustrate the transition of the priesthood from the Levites to Yeshua the Messiah, the writer uses Melchizedek, priest of God in the Old Testament, to typify Christ's new position as High Priest.

Answer 4

Melchizedek was a high priest that Abraham gave 1/10th of his bounty. A representation of Jesus Christ as the High Priest in the order of Melchizedek or the same Melchizedek.

Answer 5

A personage of some mystery in the OT. Some believe to be a sort of prophecy of Jesus Christ. It is also the term used for "priests" in the Mormon church. The Melchizedek Priesthood.

Answer 6

A priest of God the Most High, who brought wine and bread as a sacrifice to God, foreshadowing the holy Eucharist, and he blessed Abraham.
Jesus is priest forever in the line of Melchizedek, not in the line of Aaron.

Answer 7

literally salem means peace hence Melchizedek is "King of peace" as he was king of Salem and prefigured Jesus as he was the only other person to be both King and High Priest like the name Jerusalem means new Salem Gorbalizer

Answer 8

"Melek" is Hebrew for "king"
"Zedek" is a name.

The ethnic group living around northern Judea at the time of the patriarchs had several rulers who's names began with "Melek". For a philosophical view, read Hebrews.

The same thing happened with another ethnic group living on the coast of Judea (the Shephelah). "Abimelech" means "My father, the king". "Aba" is father, and the possessive form is "avi".

Answer 9

I remember him as the first person who received 10% of the profits of an Israel - hominid Battle. After the Battle he was given one tenth of the booty, the spoils of war - so to say.

Answer 10

I think it means, "king of righteousness" or "my king is Sedek". Probably the latter??

Answer 11

That is a reference to Jesus Christ- the "one high priest" --Mentioned in the OT too.