Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H3548

➧ Back to the Overview

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)

Occurrences of "The Priest"

1 Kings 2:26

And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord God before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.(f)

1 Kings 2:35

And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.

1 Kings 4:2

And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,(a)

2 Kings 11:9

And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

2 Kings 11:15

But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the Lord .

2 Kings 11:18

And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the Lord .(h)

2 Kings 12:2

And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

2 Kings 12:7

Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.

2 Kings 12:9

But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the Lord : and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the Lord .(e)

2 Kings 16:10

And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath–pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.(c)

2 Kings 16:11

And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus.

2 Kings 16:15

And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king’s burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to enquire by.

2 Kings 16:16

Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.

2 Kings 22:10

And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

2 Kings 22:12

And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king’s, saying,(c)

(d)

2 Kings 22:14

So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.(e)

(f)

2 Kings 23:24

Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord .(l)

1 Chronicles 16:39

And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the Lord in the high place that was at Gibeon,

1 Chronicles 24:6

And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.(a)

2 Chronicles 22:11

But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.(d)

2 Chronicles 23:8

So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.

2 Chronicles 23:9

Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David’s, which were in the house of God.

2 Chronicles 23:14

Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the house of the Lord .

2 Chronicles 23:17

Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

2 Chronicles 24:2

And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

2 Chronicles 24:20

And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the Lord , that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the Lord , he hath also forsaken you.(e)

2 Chronicles 24:25

And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.

2 Chronicles 26:17

And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the Lord , that were valiant men:

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)

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 8:33

Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;

Ezra 10:10

And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.(e)

1 5

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

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H3548