ko.hen H3548

כֹּהֵן (ko.hen) means “priest” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

כֹּהֵן Hebrew · H3548 750 tagged occurrences in 653 verses

Pronunciation guide: ko-hane' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H3548

כֹּהֵן · ko.hen · priest

1) priest, principal officer or chief ruler 1a) priest-king (Melchizedek, Messiah) 1b) pagan priests 1c) priests of Jehovah 1d) Levitical priests 1e) Zadokite priests 1f) Aaronic priests 1g) the high priest Aramaic equivalent: ka.hen (כָּהֵן "priest" H3549)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

active participle of H3547 (כָּהַן); literally one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman)

KJV glosses: chief ruler, [idiom] own, priest, prince, principal officer.

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How translators render H3548

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
the priest	245
the priests	107
priest	47
priests	44
of the priests	27
and the priest	24
then the priest	21
a priest	10
and priests	8
and the priests	8
in this way the priest	8
so the priests	7
to the priest	7
among the priests	6
were priests	6
her priests	5
then the priests	5
for the priests	4
his priests	4
to the priests	4
along with the priests	3
and he	3
as well as the priests	3
he	3
o priests	3
of a priest	3
of priests	3
priestly	3
while the priests	3
a priests	2
after the priest	2
and for the priests	2
and priest	2
as priests	2
as the priest	2
his	2
including the priests	2
is for the priests	2
may your priests	2
now the priests	2
of the priest	2
so that the priests	2
so the priest	2
their priests	2
when the priests	2
where the priests	2
who	2
with the priests	2
after the priests	1
and a priest	1
and his priest	1
and his priests	1
and jehoiada the priest	1
and must be given to the priest	1
and my priest	1
and priest alike	1
and some of the priests	1
and the other priests	1
and their	1
are a priest	1
are the priests	1
as far as the priest	1
as for the priest	1
as for the priests	1
as priest	1
belongs to the priest	1
but as soon as the priests	1
but he	1
but the priest	1
but the priests	1
but the priests used	1
for a priest	1
for the priest	1
for their priestly	1
from the priests	1
he leads priests	1
including priests	1
it to the priest	1
its priests	1
let the priests	1
like priest	1
moreover the priests	1
my priests	1
now the priest	1
of her priests	1
of the high priest	1
of the priestly	1
once the priests	1
or priest	1
or priests	1
our priests	1
pagan priests	1
portion for the priest	1
priestly leaders	1
should priests	1
than the priests had been	1
the priesthood	1
the priests portion	1
then he	1
there was a priest	1
thus the priest	1
to be used by the priests	1
was a priest	1
was priest	1
was the priest	1
were among his priests	1
were given to the priests	1
when the priest	1
which belonged to the priests	1
while the priest	1
who are priests	1
who is a priest	1
will the priests	1
you priest	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
the priest	151
and the priest	113
the priests	69
and the priests	49
of the priests	47
priest	39
then the priest	28
unto the priest	21
priests	18
for the priests	12
unto the priests	9
for the priest	6
to the priests	5
with the priests	5
among the priests	4
and if the priest	4
her priests	4
of the priest	4
so the priests	4
a priest	3
and it came to pass when the priests	3
and of the priests	3
but if the priest	3
of priests	3
shall be the priests	3
shall the priest	3
them unto the priest	3
to the priest	3
upon the priests	3
where the priests	3
all the priests	2
and a priest	2
and his priests	2
and to the priests	2
because the priests	2
but the priests	2
even unto the priest	2
for themselves and for the priests	2
from the priest	2
his priests	2
in the priests	2
let the priests	2
let thy priests	2
of his own	2
our priests	2
so that the priests	2
their priests	2
were priests	2
when the priests	2
according to all that the priests	1
also the priests	1
among his priests	1
and all his priests	1
and all the priests	1
and he shall be a priest	1
and if when the priest	1
and let the priests	1
and now o ye priests	1
and on our priests	1
and on that side before the priests	1
and priest	1
and their priests	1
and this shall be the priests	1
and to all the priests	1
as the priest	1
became his priest	1
before the priest	1
before the priests	1
but if the priests	1
but to the priests	1
did the priest	1
even those did the priests	1
for all the priests	1
for thee to be a priest	1
for them the priest	1
from being priest	1
him and the priests	1
him priests	1
if the priest	1
if the priests	1
in it then the priest	1
it shall be the priests	1
it to the priest	1
it unto the priest	1
it unto the priests	1
it was the priests	1
like priest	1
may be a priest	1
me and i am his priest	1
me my priests	1
my priest	1
neither shall any priest	1
neither shall the priests	1
nevertheless the priests	1
nor to the priests	1
not for the priests	1
now the priest	1
now the priests	1
of her priests	1
of them for priests	1
of them priests	1
or a priest	1
or that thou be a priest	1
out of the place where the priests	1
princes	1
principal officer	1
save the priests	1
shall be for the priests	1
so the priest	1
so with the priest	1
that had a priest	1
that is priest	1
that the priest	1
that the priests	1
thee priest	1
themselves than the priests	1
then shall the priest	1
then the priests	1
therefore neither the priests	1
thereof against the priests	1
thereof and the priest	1
thereof shall be the priests	1
these did the priests	1
unto you o priests	1
was a chief ruler	1
were chief rulers	1
wherefore the priest	1
wheresoever the priest	1
who became his priest	1
with him and the priests	1
with the priest	1
with thee but let not the priests	1
with this and the priest	1
ye priests	1
ye this o priests	1
you priests	1

Verses containing H3548

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2 Chronicles 29:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the priests slaughtered the goats and put their blood on the altar for a sin offering, to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had ordered the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel.
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2 Chronicles 29:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
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2 Chronicles 29:34 · BSB · 3 occurrences
However, since there were not enough priests to skin all the burnt offerings, their Levite brothers helped them until the work was finished and until the priests had consecrated themselves. For the Levites had been more diligent in consecrating themselves than the priests had been.
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2 Chronicles 30:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
since they had been unable to keep it at the regular time, because not enough priests had consecrated themselves and the people had not been gathered in Jerusalem.
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2 Chronicles 30:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And on the fourteenth day of the second month they slaughtered the Passover lamb. The priests and Levites were ashamed, and they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings to the house of the LORD.
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2 Chronicles 30:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They stood at their prescribed posts, according to the Law of Moses the man of God. The priests splattered the blood, which they received from the hand of the Levites.
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2 Chronicles 30:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The Israelites who were present in Jerusalem celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy, and the Levites and priests praised the LORD day after day, accompanied by loud instruments of praise to the LORD.
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2 Chronicles 30:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For Hezekiah king of Judah contributed a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep for the assembly, and the officials contributed a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep for the assembly, and a great number of priests consecrated themselves.
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2 Chronicles 30:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the whole assembly of Judah rejoiced along with the priests and Levites and the whole assembly that had come from Israel, including the foreigners who had come from Israel and those who lived in Judah.
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2 Chronicles 30:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the priests and the Levites stood to bless the people, and God heard their voice, and their prayer came into His holy dwelling place in heaven.
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2 Chronicles 31:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Hezekiah reestablished the divisions of the priests and Levites—each of them according to their duties as priests or Levites—for the burnt offerings and peace offerings, for ministry, for giving thanks, and for singing praises at the gates of the LORD’s dwelling.
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2 Chronicles 31:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Moreover, he commanded the people living in Jerusalem to make a contribution for the priests and Levites so that they could devote themselves to the Law of the LORD.
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2 Chronicles 31:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and Levites about the heaps,
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2 Chronicles 31:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and Azariah, the chief priest of the household of Zadok, answered him, “Since the people began to bring their contributions into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and there is plenty left over, because the LORD has blessed His people; this great abundance is what is left over.”
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2 Chronicles 31:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Under his authority, Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah faithfully distributed portions to their fellow priests in their cities, according to their divisions, old and young alike.
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2 Chronicles 31:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and to the priests enrolled according to their families in the genealogy, as well as to the Levites twenty years of age or older, according to their responsibilities and divisions.
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2 Chronicles 31:19 · BSB · 2 occurrences
As for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who lived on the farmlands around each of their cities or in any other city, men were designated by name to distribute a portion to every male among the priests and to every Levite listed by the genealogies.
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2 Chronicles 34:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
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2 Chronicles 34:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So they went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the money that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites who guarded the doors had collected from the people of Manasseh and Ephraim, from all the remnant of Israel, from all Judah and Benjamin, and from the people of Jerusalem.
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2 Chronicles 34:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
While they were bringing out the money that had been taken into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of the LORD given by Moses.
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2 Chronicles 34:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Moreover, Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read it in the presence of the king.
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2 Chronicles 34:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the Levites—all the people great and small—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.
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2 Chronicles 35:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He appointed the priests to their duties and encouraged them in the service of the house of the LORD.
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2 Chronicles 35:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences
His officials also contributed willingly to the people and priests and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the chief officials of the house of God, gave the priests 2,600 Passover offerings and 300 bulls.
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2 Chronicles 35:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the service was prepared; the priests stood in their places and the Levites in their divisions according to the king’s command.
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2 Chronicles 35:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And they slaughtered the Passover lambs, while the priests splattered the blood handed to them and the Levites skinned the animals.
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2 Chronicles 35:14 · BSB · 3 occurrences
Afterward, they made preparations for themselves and for the priests, since the priests, the descendants of Aaron, were offering up burnt offerings and fat until nightfall. So the Levites made preparations for themselves and for the priests, the descendants of Aaron.
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2 Chronicles 35:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
No such Passover had been observed in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel ever observed a Passover like the one that Josiah observed with the priests, the Levites, all Judah, the Israelites who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.
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2 Chronicles 36:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
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Ezra 1:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—prepared to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.
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Ezra 2:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The priests: The descendants of Jedaiah (through the house of Jeshua), 973;
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Ezra 2:61 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And from among the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, and the descendants of Barzillai (who had married a daughter of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name).
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Ezra 2:63 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest to consult the Urim and Thummim.
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Ezra 2:69 · BSB · 1 occurrence
According to their ability, they gave to the treasury for this work 61,000 darics of gold, 5,000 minas of silver, and 100 priestly garments.
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Ezra 2:70 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants, along with some of the people, settled in their own towns; and the rest of the Israelites settled in their towns.
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Ezra 3:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Jeshua son of Jozadak and his fellow priests, along with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his associates, began to build the altar of the God of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.
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Ezra 3:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the second month of the second year after they had arrived at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the rest of their associates including the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned to Jerusalem from the captivity, began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years of age or older to supervise the construction of the house of the LORD.
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Ezra 3:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the builders had laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their positions to praise the LORD, as David king of Israel had prescribed.
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Ezra 3:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads who had seen the first temple wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple. Still, many others shouted joyfully.
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Ezra 6:20 · BSB · 2 occurrences
All the priests and Levites had purified themselves and were ceremonially clean. And the Levites slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their priestly brothers, and for themselves.
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Ezra 7:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest—
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Ezra 7:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes, he went up to Jerusalem with some of the Israelites, including priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants.
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Ezra 7:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is the text of the letter King Artaxerxes had given to Ezra the priest and scribe, an expert in the commandments and statutes of the LORD to Israel:
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Ezra 8:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now I assembled these exiles at the canal that flows to Ahava, and we camped there three days. And when I searched among the people and priests, I found no Levites there.
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Ezra 8:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests, together with Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers,
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Ezra 8:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Guard them carefully until you weigh them out in the chambers of the house of the LORD in Jerusalem before the leading priests, Levites, and heads of the Israelite families.”
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Ezra 8:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the priests and Levites took charge of the silver and gold and sacred articles that had been weighed out to be taken to the house of our God in Jerusalem.
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Ezra 8:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
On the fourth day, in the house of our God, we weighed out the silver and gold and sacred articles into the hand of Meremoth son of Uriah, the priest. Eleazar son of Phinehas was with him, along with the Levites Jozabad son of Jeshua and Noadiah son of Binnui.
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Ezra 9:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.
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Ezra 9:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
From the days of our fathers to this day, our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities, we and our kings and priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the earth and subjected to the sword and to captivity, to pillage and humiliation, as we are this day.
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