1. אמרפל 'amrāpel — Amraphel; related: unknown. אלריוך 'aryôk — Ariok, “leonine?” related: ארי …

Possessor. — Literally, creator, or framer. It is a poetical word, as are also those for “delivered” and “enemie…

And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: And blessed be the most high God, which hat…

And he blessed him. Unless these two parts of the sentence, ‘He was the priest of God,’ and ‘He blessed,’ cohere, Moses here relates nothi…

And he blessed him
Melchizedek blessed Abram, which was one part of his office as a priest, to wish and pray for a b…

Melchizedek is spoken of as a king of Salem, supposed to be the place afterwards called Jerusalem, and it is generally thought that he was only a m…