Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H3548: כֹּהֵן (kôhên) Definition

Strong's number
H3548
Lemma
כֹּהֵן
Transliteration
kôhên
Pronunciation
ko-hane'
Strong's definition
literally one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman) chief ruler, [idiom] own, priest, prince, principal officer. active participle of H3547 (כָּהַן);

653 instances of the word כֹּהֵן kôhên (H3548)


  • 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 God of Israel to offer burnt offerings thereon as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God

  • Ezra 3:8 - year Now in the second and all they that were come out of the house of God at Jerusalem month Now in the second began Zerubbabel old of Shealtiel and Jeshua old of Jozadak and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites and all they that were come out of the captivity at Jerusalem and appointed and the Levites old from twenty year and upward to set forward the work of the house of the LORD

  • Ezra 3:10 - laid the foundation And when the builders 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 of 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 house the first was laid house before their eyes wept voice with a loud But many shouted for joy aloud voice

  • Ezra 6:20 - were purified For the priests and the Levites together all of them were pure and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity and for their brethren For the priests

  • Ezra 7:5 - The son of Abishua The son of Phinehas The son of Eleazar The son of Aaron priest the chief

  • 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 year in the seventh of Artaxerxes the king

  • Ezra 7:11 - Now this is the copy of the letter gave that the king Artaxerxes unto Ezra the priest even a 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 days three and I viewed the people and the priests there none of the sons of Levi and found

  • Ezra 8:24 - Then I separated of the chief of the priests twelve Sherebiah Hashabiah of their brethren and ten

  • Ezra 8:29 - Watch ye and keep them until ye weigh them before and chief of the priests and the Levites and chief of the fathers of Israel at Jerusalem in the chambers of the house of the LORD

  • Ezra 8:30 - So took the priests and the Levites the weight of the silver and the gold and the vessels to bring them to Jerusalem unto the house of our God

  • Ezra 8:33 - day Now on the fourth weighed was the silver and the gold and the vessels 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 9:1 - Now when these things were done came the princes to me saying have not separated The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites The people of the lands doing according to their abominations even of the Canaanites the Hittites the Perizzites the Jebusites the Ammonites the Moabites the Egyptians and the Amorites

  • Ezra 9:7 - Since the days of our fathers trespass have we been in a great Since the days and for our iniquities been delivered have we our kings and our priests into the hand have we our kings of the lands to the sword to captivity and to a spoil and to confusion of face Since the days

  • Ezra 10:5 - Then arose Ezra And they sware and made the chief priests the Levites and all Israel that they should do according to this word And they sware

  • Ezra 10:10 - stood up And Ezra the priest and said unto them Ye have transgressed and have taken wives strange to increase the trespass of Israel

  • Ezra 10:16 - did so And the children of the captivity were separated And Ezra the priest chief of the fathers after the house of the fathers and all of them by their names and sat down day in the first month of the tenth to examine the matter

  • Ezra 10:18 - there were found And among the sons of the priests that had taken wives strange And among the sons of Jeshua And among the sons of Jozadak and his brethren Maaseiah and Eliezer and Jarib and Gedaliah

  • Genesis 14:18 - And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine and he was the priest God of the most high