'Having' in the Bible

God, having spoken in former times in fragmentary and varied fashion to our forefathers by the prophets,

having been designated by God to be a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.

where Jesus, our forerunner, has gone on our behalf, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

All these people died having faith. They did not receive the things that were promised, yet they saw them in the distant future and welcomed them, acknowledging that they were strangers and foreigners on earth.

Therefore, having so vast a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, and throwing off everything that hinders us and especially the sin that so easily entangles us, let us keep running with endurance the race set before us,