Melchizedek
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<div><em>Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek</em> – by <a class="mw-redirect" title="Dirk Bouts" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Bouts">Dieric Bouts the Elder</a>, 1464–1467</div>
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<th colspan="2">Priest, King of SalemVeneratedin</th>
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26 August (<a title="Catholic Church" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church">Catholic Church</a>)</td>
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<p><strong>Melchizedek, Melkisetek, or Malki Tzedek</strong> (<span class="nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt"><a title="Help:IPA/English" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English">/<span title="'m' in 'my'">mɛlˈkɪzədɛk</span>/</a></span></span>;<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchizedek#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> <a title="Biblical Hebrew" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Hebrew">Hebrew</a>: <span class="script-hebrew" dir="rtl">מַלְכִּי־צֶדֶֿק</span> malkī-ṣeḏeq, "king of righteousness"; <a title="Amharic" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amharic">Amharic</a>: መልከ ጼዴቅ <em><span lang="he-Latn" title="Hebrew language text">malkī-ṣeḏeq</span></em>; <a title="Armenian language" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_language">Armenian</a>: Մելքիսեդեք, <em>Melkisetek</em>), was the king of <a title="Salem (Bible)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_(Bible)">Salem</a> and priest of <em><a class="mw-redirect" title="El Elyon" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Elyon">El Elyon</a></em> ("God most high") mentioned in the 14th chapter of the <a title="Book of Genesis" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Genesis">Book of Genesis</a>. He brings out bread and wine and blesses <a class="mw-redirect" title="Abram" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram">Abram</a> and El Elyon.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchizedek#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup></p>
<p><a title="Chazal" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chazal">Chazalic</a> literature – specifically <a title="Targum Jonathan" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targum_Jonathan">Targum Jonathan</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" title="Targum Yerushalmi" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targum_Yerushalmi">Targum Yerushalmi</a>, and the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Babylonian Talmud" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_Talmud">Babylonian Talmud</a> – presents the name (<span lang="he" title="Hebrew language text">מלכי־צדק)</span> as a <a title="Nickname" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickname">nickname</a> title for <a title="Shem" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shem">Shem</a>, the son of <a title="Noah" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah">Noah</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchizedek#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup></p>
<p>In <a title="Christianity" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity">Christianity</a>, according to the <a title="Epistle to the Hebrews" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_the_Hebrews">Epistle to the Hebrews</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" title="Jesus Christ" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ">Jesus Christ</a> is identified as "a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek", and so Jesus assumes the role of <a class="mw-redirect" title="High Priest (Judaism)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Priest_(Judaism)">High Priest</a> once and for all.</p>
<p>Reference between the messiah and Melchizedek appears in subsequent biblical verses: Genesis 14:18-20; Psalm 110:1-7 Matthew 22:44; 26:26-28 Luke 22:19; Mark 14:22 John 6:53 Acts 2:34 I Corinthians 11:23-25 Hebrews 4:14-15; 5:6; 5:10; 6:19-20; 7:1-21. Revelation 1:6.</p>