Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H3548

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Original: כּהן

Transliteration: kohen (kôhên)

Phonetic: ko-hane'

BDB Definition:

priest, principal officer or chief ruler
1. priest-king (Melchizedek, Messiah)
2. pagan priests
3. priests of Jehovah
4. Levitical priests
5. Zadokite priests
6. Aaronic priests
7. the high priest

Origin: active participle of H3547

TWOT entry: 959a

Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine

Strong's Definition: Active participle of H3547; literally one officiating, a priest ; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman): - chief ruler, X own, priest, prince, principal officer.

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (750x)

A Priest (3x)

According To All That The Priests (1x)

All The Priests (2x)

Also The Priests (1x)

Among His Priests (1x)

Among The Priests (4x)

And A Priest (2x)

And All His Priests (1x)

And All The Priests (1x)

And He Shall Be A Priest (1x)

And His Priests (2x)

And If The Priest (4x)

And If, When The Priest (1x)

And It Came To Pass, When The Priests (3x)

And Let The Priests (1x)

And Now, O Ye Priests (1x)

And Of The Priests (3x)

And On Our Priests (1x)

And On That Side Before The Priests (1x)

And Priest (1x)

And The Priest (113x)

And The Priests (47x)

And The Priests’ (1x)

And The Priest’s (1x)

And Their Priests (1x)

And This Shall Be The Priest’s (1x)

And To All The Priests (1x)

And To The Priests (2x)

As The Priest (1x)

Became His Priest (1x)

Because The Priests (2x)

Before The Priest (1x)

Before The Priests (1x)

But If The Priest (3x)

But If The Priest’s (1x)

But The Priests (2x)

But To The Priests (1x)

Did The Priest (1x)

Even Those Did The Priests (1x)

Even Unto The Priest (2x)

For All The Priests (1x)

For The Priest (6x)

For The Priests (11x)

For The Priest’s (1x)

For Thee To Be A Priest (1x)

For Them: The Priest (1x)

For Themselves, And For The Priests (2x)

From Being Priest (1x)

From The Priest (2x)

Her Priests (4x)

Him Priests (1x)

Him; And The Priests (1x)

His Priests (2x)

If The Priest (1x)

If The Priest’s (1x)

In It; Then The Priest (1x)

In The Priest’s (2x)

It Shall Be The Priest’s (1x)

It To The Priest (1x)

It Unto The Priest (1x)

It Unto The Priests (1x)

It Was The Priests’ (1x)

Let The Priests (2x)

Let Thy Priests (2x)

Like Priest (1x)

May Be A Priest (1x)

Me, And I Am His Priest (1x)

Me: My Priests (1x)

My Priest (1x)

Neither Shall Any Priest (1x)

Neither Shall The Priests (1x)

Nevertheless The Priests (1x)

Nor To The Priests (1x)

Not; For The Priests (1x)

Now The Priest (1x)

Now The Priests (1x)

Of Her Priests (1x)

Of His Own (2x)

Of Priests (3x)

Of The Priest (4x)

Of The Priests (45x)

Of The Priests’ (2x)

Of Them For Priests (1x)

Of Them Priests (1x)

Or A Priest (1x)

Or That Thou Be A Priest (1x)

Our Priests (2x)

Out Of The Place Where The Priests’ (1x)

Priest (39x)

Priests (14x)

Priests’ (3x)

Priest’s (1x)

Princes (1x)

Principal Officer (1x)

Save The Priests (1x)

Shall Be For The Priests (1x)

Shall Be The Priest’s (3x)

Shall The Priest (3x)

So That The Priests (2x)

100

So The Priest (1x)

101

So The Priests (4x)

102

So With The Priest (1x)

103

That Had A Priest (1x)

104

That Is Priest (1x)

105

That The Priest (1x)

106

That The Priests (1x)

107

The Priest (151x)

108

The Priests (66x)

109

The Priest’s (3x)

110

Thee Priest (1x)

111

Their Priests (2x)

112

Them Unto The Priest (3x)

113

Themselves Than The Priests (1x)

114

Then Shall The Priest (1x)

115

Then The Priest (28x)

116

Then The Priests (1x)

117

Therefore Neither The Priests (1x)

118

Thereof Shall Be The Priest’s (1x)

119

Thereof, Against The Priests (1x)

120

Thereof; And The Priest (1x)

121

These Did The Priests (1x)

122

To The Priest (3x)

123

To The Priests (5x)

124

Unto The Priest (21x)

125

Unto The Priests (9x)

126

Unto You, O Priests (1x)

127

Upon The Priests (3x)

128

Was A Chief Ruler (1x)

129

Were Chief Rulers (1x)

130

Were Priests (2x)

131

When The Priests (2x)

132

Where The Priests (3x)

133

Wherefore The Priest (1x)

134

Wheresoever The Priest (1x)

135

Who Became His Priest (1x)

136

With Him, And The Priests (1x)

137

With The Priest (1x)

138

With The Priests (5x)

139

With Thee: But Let Not The Priests (1x)

140

With This: And The Priest (1x)

141

Ye Priests (1x)

142

Ye This, O Priests (1x)

143

You Priests (1x)

All Occurrences

2 Chronicles 31:9

Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

2 Chronicles 31:10

And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the Lord , we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the Lord hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.

2 Chronicles 31:15

And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:(i)

(j)

2 Chronicles 31:17

Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;

2 Chronicles 31:19

Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.

2 Chronicles 34:5

And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:9

And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:14

And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the Lord , Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the Lord given by Moses.(f)

2 Chronicles 34:18

Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.(i)

2 Chronicles 34:30

And the king went up into the house of the Lord , and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the Lord .(n)

2 Chronicles 35:2

And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the Lord ,

2 Chronicles 35:8

And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.(d)

2 Chronicles 35:10

So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king’s commandment.

2 Chronicles 35:11

And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.

2 Chronicles 35:14

And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.

2 Chronicles 35:18

And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.(i)

2 Chronicles 36:14

Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

Ezra 1:5

Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem.

Ezra 2:36

The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.

Ezra 2:61

And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:

Ezra 2:63

And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.(t)

Ezra 2:69

They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.

Ezra 2:70

So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

Ezra 3:2

Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.(a)

(b)

(c)

Ezra 3:8

Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the Lord .

Ezra 3:10

And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord , they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the Lord , after the ordinance of David king of Israel.

Ezra 3:12

But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:

Ezra 6:20

For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

Ezra 7:5

The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:

Ezra 7:7

And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

Ezra 7:11

Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the Lord , and of his statutes to Israel.

Ezra 8:15

And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.(c)

Ezra 8:24

Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,

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Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.

Strong's Concor­dance

Hebrew-Aramaic H3548

Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

Thayers Information

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Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H3548