H3548 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)


  • 2 Chronicles 17:8 - And with them he sent Levites even Shemaiah and Nethaniah and Zebadiah and Asahel and Shemiramoth and Jehonathan and Adonijah and Tobijah and Tobadonijah And with them he sent Levites and with them Elishama and Jehoram priests

  • Deuteronomy 17:9 - And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites and unto the judge that shall be in those days and enquire and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment

  • Judges 17:10 - said And Micah unto him Dwell with me and be unto me a father and a priest and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year and a suit of apparel and thy victuals So the Levite

  • Deuteronomy 17:12 - And the man that will do presumptuously and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God or unto the judge shall die And the man and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel

  • Judges 17:12 - consecrated And Micah the Levite and the young man became his priest and was in the house And Micah

  • Judges 17:13 - Then said Micah Now know will do me good I that the LORD seeing I have a Levite to my priest

  • 2 Samuel 17:15 - Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests and thus and thus have I counselled Thus and thus did Ahithophel Absalom and the elders of Israel and thus and thus have I counselled

  • Deuteronomy 17:18 - And it shall be when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites

  • 2 Kings 17:27 - commanded Then the king of Assyria saying thither one of the priests whom ye brought and dwell there and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land

  • 2 Kings 17:28 - came Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria and dwelt in Bethel and taught them how they should fear the LORD

  • 2 Kings 17:32 - the LORD and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places and made for them in the houses of the high places

  • Deuteronomy 18:1 - The priests the Levites and all the tribe of Levi shall have no part and his inheritance with Israel made by fire of the LORD and his inheritance they shall eat

  • Exodus 18:1 - heard When Jethro the priest of Midian father in law Moses had done of all that God Moses Israel his people had brought and that the LORD Israel out of Egypt

  • Deuteronomy 18:3 - due And this shall be the priest's from the people from them that offer a sacrifice whether it be ox or sheep and they shall give And this shall be the priest's the shoulder and the two cheeks and the maw

  • Judges 18:4 - And he said and thus dealeth Micah with me and hath hired me and I am his priest

  • Judges 18:6 - said And the priest in peace before the LORD is your way

  • 1 Chronicles 18:16 - And Zadok the son of Ahitub and Abimelech the son of Abiathar were the priests and Shavsha was scribe

  • Judges 18:17 - went up And the five men that went to spy out the land and came in thither and took the graven image and the ephod and the teraphim and the molten image and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war

  • Jeremiah 18:18 - Then said and let us devise against Jeremiah devices shall not perish for the law from the priest nor counsel from the wise nor the word from the prophet and let us smite him with the tongue and let us not give heed nor the word

  • Judges 18:18 - And these went house into Micah's and fetched the carved image the ephod and the teraphim and the molten image Then said the priest unto them What do

  • Judges 18:19 - And they said unto him Hold thy peace lay thine hand upon thy mouth with us and be to us a father and a priest is it better with us and be to us and a priest unto the house man of one with us and be to us and a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel

  • Judges 18:20 - was glad heart And the priest's and he took the ephod and the teraphim and the graven image and went in the midst of the people

  • Judges 18:24 - And he said my gods which I made Ye have taken away and the priest And he said

  • Judges 18:27 - And they took had made the things which Micah and the priest which he had and came unto Laish unto a people that were at quiet and secure and they smote them with the edge of the sword the city and burnt with fire

  • Numbers 18:28 - Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering thereof the LORD'S of all your tithes which ye receive of the children of Israel and ye shall give an heave offering thereof the LORD'S to Aaron the priest

  • Judges 18:30 - set up And the children of Dan the graven image and Jonathan And the children of Gershom And the children of Manasseh And the children were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land

  • Jeremiah 19:1 - Thus saith the LORD Go and get bottle a potter's earthen and of the ancients of the people and of the ancients of the priests

  • 2 Kings 19:2 - And he sent Eliakim which was over the household and Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz

  • Numbers 19:3 - And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest that he may bring her forth without the camp and one shall slay her before

  • Numbers 19:4 - shall take And Eleazar the priest of her blood with his finger and sprinkle directly before the tabernacle of the congregation of her blood seven times

  • Exodus 19:6 - And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests nation and an holy These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel

  • Numbers 19:6 - shall take And the priest wood cedar and hyssop and scarlet and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer

  • Numbers 19:7 - shall wash his clothes Then the priest and he shall bathe his flesh in water and afterward he shall come into the camp shall be unclean Then the priest until the even

  • 2 Chronicles 19:8 - Moreover in Jerusalem set did Jehoshaphat of the Levites and of the priests and of the chief of the fathers of Israel for the judgment of the LORD and for controversies when they returned Moreover in Jerusalem

  • 2 Chronicles 19:11 - And behold Amariah priest the chief is over you in all matters and the LORD and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael the ruler of the house of Judah is over you in all matters for all the king's shall be officers also the Levites before courageously you Deal and the LORD shall be with the good

  • 2 Samuel 19:11 - And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests saying Speak unto the elders of Judah saying Why are ye the last back And king even to his house seeing the speech of all Israel is come And king even to his house

  • Deuteronomy 19:17 - is shall stand Then both between whom the controversy before the LORD before the priests and the judges which shall be in those days

  • Exodus 19:22 - And let the priests also which come near themselves lest the LORD sanctify break forth themselves lest the LORD

  • Leviticus 19:22 - shall make an atonement And the priest for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven and the sin which he hath done

  • Exodus 19:24 - said And the LORD get thee down and thou shalt come up thou and Aaron with thee but let not the priests and the people break through and thou shalt come up And the LORD lest he break forth

  • Joshua 19:51 - These are the inheritances divided for an inheritance which Eleazar the priest and Joshua of the children of Nun and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel by lot in Shiloh before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation So they made an end of dividing the country

  • Jeremiah 20:1 - heard Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD that Jeremiah prophesied these things

  • Deuteronomy 20:2 - And it shall be when ye are come nigh unto the battle shall approach that the priest and speak unto the people

  • Joshua 20:6 - And he shall dwell in that city until he stand before the congregation for judgment and until the death priest of the high that shall be in those days return then shall the slayer and come in that city and unto his own house in that city that from whence he fled

  • 2 Samuel 20:25 - was scribe and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests

  • 2 Samuel 20:26 - And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David

  • 1 Samuel 21:1 - Then came David to Nob and Ahimelech the priest was afraid and Ahimelech at the meeting David and said unto him Why art thou alone and no man

  • Jeremiah 21:1 - The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD sent when king Zedekiah unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest saying

  • Joshua 21:1 - Then came near and unto the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest and unto Joshua of the children of Nun and unto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel

  • Leviticus 21:1 - Speak And the LORD unto Moses Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron Speak for the dead unto them There shall none be defiled among his people

  • 1 Samuel 21:2 - and hath said And David unto Ahimelech the priest The king hath commanded me a business and hath said unto me Let no man know any thing me a business whereabout I send hath commanded my servants know a place to such and such

  • 1 Samuel 21:4 - answered And the priest David and said bread There is no common under mine hand bread hallowed but there is have kept if the young men themselves at least from women

  • Joshua 21:4 - came out And the lot for the families of the Kohathites and the children of Aaron the priest which were of the Levites and out of the tribe of Judah and out of the tribe of Simeon and out of the tribe of Benjamin And the lot cities thirteen

  • Deuteronomy 21:5 - shall come near And the priests the sons of Levi hath chosen for them the LORD thy God to minister unto him and to bless in the name for them the LORD and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke

  • 1 Samuel 21:5 - answered And David the priest and said unto him Of a truth women have been kept days from us about these three since I came out and the vessels of the young men are holy and the bread is in a manner common this day yea though it were sanctified and the vessels

  • 1 Samuel 21:6 - gave So the priest him hallowed bread bread from before that was taken from before the LORD to put bread hot in the day when it was taken away

  • 1 Samuel 21:9 - said And the priest The sword of Goliath the Philistine whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah behold it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod if thou wilt take if thou wilt take it for there is no other save that here said And David There is none like that give

  • Leviticus 21:9 - And the daughter of any priest if she profane herself by playing the whore her father if she profane with fire she shall be burnt

  • Leviticus 21:10 - priest And he that is the high among his brethren was poured his head oil the anointing and that is consecrated to put his clothes his head shall not uncover his clothes nor rend

  • Joshua 21:13 - to the children of Aaron the priest Thus they gave to be a city of refuge for the slayer Hebron with her suburbs and Libnah with her suburbs

  • Joshua 21:19 - All the cities of the children of Aaron the priests were thirteen All the cities with their suburbs

  • Leviticus 21:21 - No man he hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest he shall not come nigh to offer made by fire of the LORD he hath a blemish the bread of his God he shall not come nigh to offer

  • 2 Kings 22:4 - Go up to Hilkiah priest the high that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD have gathered which the keepers of the door of the people

  • 2 Kings 22:8 - said And Hilkiah priest the high to Shaphan the scribe the book of the law I have found in the house of the LORD gave And Hilkiah the book to Shaphan and he read

  • 2 Kings 22:10 - shewed And Shaphan the scribe the king saying me a book hath delivered Hilkiah the priest read And Shaphan it before the king

  • Leviticus 22:10 - There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing a sojourner of the priest or an hired servant eat of the holy thing

  • 1 Samuel 22:11 - sent Then the king to call Ahimelech the son of Ahitub the priest house and all his father's the priest that were in Nob and they came Then the king

  • 2 Chronicles 22:11 - took But Jehoshabeath the daughter of king Joash sons of Ahaziah and stole him from among sons of king so that she slew and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber hid But Jehoshabeath the daughter of king Jehoram the wife of Jehoiada the priest for she was the sister of Ahaziah him from Athaliah so that she slew

  • Leviticus 22:11 - But if the priest buy any soul with his money he shall eat of it and he that is born in his house he shall eat of his meat

  • 2 Kings 22:12 - commanded And the king Hilkiah the priest and Ahikam the son and Shaphan and Achbor the son of Michaiah and Shaphan the scribe and Asahiah a servant And the king saying

  • Leviticus 22:12 - daughter If the priest's also be married unto a stranger of an offering of the holy things she may not eat

  • Joshua 22:13 - sent And the children of Israel And the children of Reuben And the children of Gad and to the half tribe of Manasseh into the land of Gilead Phinehas And the children of Eleazar the priest

  • Leviticus 22:13 - daughter But if the priest's be a widow or divorced and have no child and is returned house of her father's as in her youth meat of her father's eat but there shall no stranger eat

  • 2 Kings 22:14 - So Hilkiah the priest and Ahikam and Achbor and Shaphan and Asahiah 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

  • Leviticus 22:14 - And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it and shall give it unto the priest of the holy thing

  • 1 Samuel 22:17 - said And the king unto the footmen that stood about him Turn and slay the priests of the LORD because their hand also is with David and because they knew when he fled and did not shew would it to me But the servants And the king not put forth because their hand to fall the priests of the LORD

  • 1 Samuel 22:18 - said And the king And Doeg Turn and he fell upon the priests Turn And Doeg the Edomite and he fell upon the priests and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear ephod a linen

  • 1 Samuel 22:19 - And Nob the city of the priests smote he with the edge of the sword both men and women children and sucklings and oxen and asses and sheep he with the edge of the sword

  • 1 Samuel 22:21 - shewed And Abiathar David had slain that Saul priests the LORD'S

  • Ezekiel 22:26 - Her priests have violated my law and I am profaned between the holy between the holy and profane they have put no difference difference between the unclean and the clean neither have they shewed from my sabbaths and have hid their eyes and I am profaned among

  • Joshua 22:30 - which were with him heard And when Phinehas the priest and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel the words spake and the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh it pleased

  • Joshua 22:31 - said And Phinehas and to the children of Eleazar the priest and to the children of Reuben and to the children of Gad and to the children of Manasseh This day we perceive is among against the LORD us because ye have not committed against the LORD this trespass now ye have delivered and to the children of Israel out of the hand against the LORD

  • Joshua 22:32 - again And Phinehas and from the children of Eleazar the priest and the princes and from the children of Reuben and from the children of Gad out of the land of Gilead out of the land of Canaan and from the children of Israel again them word

  • 1 Chronicles 23:2 - And he gathered together all the princes of Israel with the priests and the Levites

  • 2 Kings 23:2 - went up And the king in the house of the LORD and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him and the priests and the prophets and all the people both small and great and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD

  • 2 Chronicles 23:4 - This is the thing that ye shall do A third part of you entering on the sabbath of the priests and of the Levites shall be porters of the doors

  • 2 Kings 23:4 - commanded And the king Hilkiah and the priests the high and the priests of the second order and the keepers of the door to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal and for the grove and for all the host of heaven and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel

  • 2 Chronicles 23:6 - But let none come into the house of the LORD save the priests and they that minister of the Levites But let none come for they are holy but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD

  • 2 Chronicles 23:8 - did So the Levites and all Judah had commanded according to all things that Jehoiada the priest and took every man every man that were to come in on the sabbath with them that were to go on the sabbath according to all things that Jehoiada the priest not the courses

  • 2 Kings 23:8 - And he brought all the priests of the city of Judah and defiled the high places had burned incense all the priests from Geba to Beersheba and brake down the high places at the gate that were in the entering in at the gate of Joshua the governor of the city left hand which were on a man's at the gate of the city

  • 1 Samuel 23:9 - knew And David that Saul secretly practised mischief against him and he said to Abiathar the priest Bring hither the ephod

  • 2 Chronicles 23:9 - delivered Moreover Jehoiada the priest to the captains of hundreds spears and bucklers and shields that had been king David's which were in the house of God

  • 2 Kings 23:9 - came not up Nevertheless the priests of the high places to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren

  • Leviticus 23:10 - Speak unto the children of Israel and say thereof then ye shall bring into the land which I give unto you and shall reap of your harvest thereof then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest

  • Jeremiah 23:11 - For both prophet and priest are profane yea in my house have I found their wickedness saith the LORD

  • Leviticus 23:11 - And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD to be accepted for you on the morrow after the sabbath And he shall wave the priest

  • 2 Chronicles 23:14 - brought out Then Jehoiada For the priest the captains of hundreds that were set over the host and said brought out her not in the house and whoso followeth Slay with the sword and said For the priest Slay her not in the house of the LORD

  • 2 Chronicles 23:17 - went Then all the people to the house of Baal and brake it down his altars and his images and brake Mattan the priest of Baal and slew before his altars

  • 2 Chronicles 23:18 - appointed Also Jehoiada the offices in the house of the LORD as it was ordained by of the priests the Levites had distributed David in the house of the LORD to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD as it is written in the law of Moses with rejoicing and with singing as it was ordained by David

  • 2 Kings 23:20 - And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars and burned bones men's upon them and returned to Jerusalem