What Does Hebrews 7:25 Mean in the King James?
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
His deliverance reaches the whole way through because his life and intercession do not run out.
THE MEANING
You come toward God through him, and he can bring you through to completion. He remains alive, continually interceding for you.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Your need can become too great or last too long for his help.
THE ROOT
σῴζω
sōzō
GROWS FROM
σωζ
sōz
Deliver safely, preserve, bring through.
The word translated “save” belongs to a family about being brought through safely. Its reach here is qualified by “to the uttermost”: the deliverance carries you all the way through.
ALSO GROWS
sōtēria: deliverance
σωτηρία
This related word names deliverance itself, linking the act of bringing someone through with the deliverance they receive.
sōtēr: deliverer
σωτήρ
The same word family can name the one who delivers, as well as the act of deliverance.
παντελές
panteles
GROWS FROM
παν + τελ (pan + tel)
All joined to completion or the end.
“uttermost” in this verse is panteles. The word can carry both completeness and continuance to the end. Beside “ever liveth,” it makes the promise complete in reach and unbroken in time.
ALSO GROWS
telos: end, completion
τέλος
This related word carries the sense of reaching an end or completion.
teleioō: bring to completion
τελειόω
This word shares the completion family, echoing a deliverance carried all the way through.
ἐντυγχάνω
entynchano
GROWS FROM
τυγχ
tynch
Meet, encounter, come upon; the word develops the sense of appealing or interceding.
“make intercession” in this verse is entynchano. Here the verb means to intercede or appeal, and its word family carries the sense of meeting or coming upon. His ongoing life is joined to an active appeal on your behalf.
ALSO GROWS
tynchanō: happen upon, meet
τυγχάνω
The related verb carries the sense of meeting or coming upon that lies beneath the appeal.
enteuxis: petition, appeal, intercession
ἔντευξις
This related noun names the appeal or intercession made on another’s behalf.
THE PATTERN
The way toward God stays open because the priest who carries it remains alive to intercede.
The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.THE THREAD
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.The Greek verb προσέρχομαι (proserchomai), meaning “come toward,” appears in both verses: here you approach God through him, and there you are invited to approach the throne. His ongoing intercession opens a present way of approach.
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