Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50137 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

melchisedekMelchizedek

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it: 417 times in 113 works
Consistency: 99.0% (417 of 421)
Reach if approved: ~442 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: melchisedec
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 421 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (417 changes in 113 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 417)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… made of graine which is fit and conuenient for mans bodily nourishment, such as MelchisedekMelchizedek brought out to Abraham and his companie, with wine for their refreshing, Gen. 14. 18. and …
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… made of graine which is fit and conuenient for mans bodily nourishment, such as MelchisedekMelchizedek brought out to Abraham and his companie, with wine for their refreshing, Gen. 14. 18. and …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 285 · Open in the reader
Printed
… kingdome, that al peoples nations and languages shal serv him. And he the true MelchisedekMelchizedek king of Salem, shal reign as king in justice, and sit as Prince of …
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… kingdome, that al peoples nations and languages shal serv him. And he the true MelchisedekMelchizedek king of Salem, shal reign as king in justice, and sit as Prince of …
Henry Ainsworth · The Communion of Saints · p. 242 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the countrey of the Philistims where Abraham and Isaak sometime had soiourned, and MelchisedekMelchizedek had dwelt not farre off, that they had learned somewhat from them concerning the …
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… in the countrey of the Philistims where Abraham and Isaak sometime had soiourned, and MelchisedekMelchizedek had dwelt not farre off, that they had learned somewhat from them concerning the …
Andrew Willet · Harmony Upon 1 Samuel · p. 330 · Open in the reader
Printed
… was not 100. yeeres olde at his fatherhood: as is declared in the treatiſe of MelchiſedekMelchizedek.
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… was not 100. yeeres olde at his fatherhood: as is declared in the treatiſe of MelchiſedekMelchizedek.
Hugh Broughton · Order of the World · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Prieſts you are; whether of the Order of Auron, or of the Order of MelchiſedekMelchizedek, or of the Order whereof the Prieſts of Baal were. Saint Paul witneſſeth, that …
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… Prieſts you are; whether of the Order of Auron, or of the Order of MelchiſedekMelchizedek, or of the Order whereof the Prieſts of Baal were. Saint Paul witneſſeth, that …
Alexander Cooke · More Work for a Mass-Priest · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
Anſw. MelchiſedekMelchizedek, no deſcendent from Abraham, was King of Righteouſneſs, and King of Peace, at the …
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Anſw. MelchiſedekMelchizedek, no deſcendent from Abraham, was King of Righteouſneſs, and King of Peace, at the …
Thomas Beverley · The Principle of Protestant Truth and Peace · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Eſſence. And therefore will allow that the words be taken in a figurative ſenſe. MelchiſedekMelchizedek was without beginning of days or end of life, in that there is no …
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… Eſſence. And therefore will allow that the words be taken in a figurative ſenſe. MelchiſedekMelchizedek was without beginning of days or end of life, in that there is no …
Christopher Elderfield · The Civil Right of Tithes · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… No, (we do not Read that he did any ſuch thing) but for Bleſſing: MelchiſedekMelchizedek bleſſed Abraham, and Abraham pay'd the Tenth, &c.
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… No, (we do not Read that he did any ſuch thing) but for Bleſſing: MelchiſedekMelchizedek bleſſed Abraham, and Abraham pay'd the Tenth, &c.
William Jeffery · The Lawfulness of Tithes · p. 2 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Treatise Proving Melchizedek to be Shem A17009

Printed
A treatiſe of MELCHISEDEKMELCHIZEDEK, prouing him to be SEM, The father of all the ſonnes of Heber, the …
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A treatiſe of MELCHISEDEKMELCHIZEDEK, prouing him to be SEM, The father of all the ſonnes of Heber, the …
Hugh Broughton · A Treatise Proving Melchizedek to be Shem · Open in the reader

A Short Explanation of Hebrews A20414

Printed
I Brake off my speach of MELCHISEDEKMELCHIZEDEK, (will the Apostle say) Nowe I returne to him agayne, and in his excellencie …
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I Brake off my speach of MELCHISEDEKMELCHIZEDEK, (will the Apostle say) Nowe I returne to him agayne, and in his excellencie …
David Dickson · A Short Explanation of Hebrews · p. 113 · Open in the reader
Printed
MELCHISEDEKMELCHIZEDEK, certaynlie, was a verie man, King, and Priest, in such a Citie, if wee …
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MELCHISEDEKMELCHIZEDEK, certaynlie, was a verie man, King, and Priest, in such a Citie, if wee …
David Dickson · A Short Explanation of Hebrews · p. 118 · Open in the reader
Printed
… To make pluralitie of priestes in the Gospell, is to alter the Order of MELCHISEDEKMELCHIZEDEK, sworne with an Oath; and, to renounce the March set betwixt the Lawe, and …
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… To make pluralitie of priestes in the Gospell, is to alter the Order of MELCHISEDEKMELCHIZEDEK, sworne with an Oath; and, to renounce the March set betwixt the Lawe, and …
David Dickson · A Short Explanation of Hebrews · p. 143 · Open in the reader