Topic
Testament
8 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Matthew 26:28Nave The new
For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
- Mark 14:24Nave The new
And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
- Luke 22:20Nave The new
Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
- 1 Corinthians 11:25Nave The new
After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
- Hebrews 9:15Easton
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
- Hebrews 9:16ISBE
For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
- Hebrews 9:16–18Nave A will
For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated…
- Hebrews 9:17ISBE
For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 1 references
Occurs twelve times in the New Testament (Heb. 9:15, etc.) as the rendering of the Gr. diatheke, which is twenty times rendered “covenant” in the Authorized Version, and always so in the Revised Version. The Vulgate translates incorrectly by testamentum, whence the names “Old” and “New Testament,” by which we now designate the two sections into which the Bible is divided. (See BIBLE.)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 2 references
tes'-ta-ment: The word diatheke, almost invariably rendered "covenant," was rendered in the King James Version "testament" in Heb 9:16,17, in the sense of a will to dispose of property after the maker's death. It is not easy to find justification for the retention of this translation in the Revised Version (British and American), "especially in a book which is so impregnated with the language of the Septuagint as the Epistle to the Hebrews" (Hatch).
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.