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

Page 11 of 14. 653 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

Ezra 10:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Ezra got up and made the leading priests, Levites, and all Israel take an oath to do what had been said. And they took the oath.
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Ezra 10:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful by marrying foreign women, adding to the guilt of Israel.
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Ezra 10:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the exiles did as proposed. Ezra the priest selected men who were family heads, each of them identified by name, to represent their families. On the first day of the tenth month they launched the investigation,
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Ezra 10:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Among the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women were found these descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.
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Nehemiah 2:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, for I had not yet told the Jews or priests or nobles or officials or any other workers.
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Nehemiah 3:1 · BSB · 2 occurrences
At the Sheep Gate, Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests began rebuilding. They dedicated it and installed its doors. After building as far as the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel, they dedicated the wall.
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Nehemiah 3:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Next to him, Baruch son of Zabbai diligently repaired another section, from the angle to the doorway of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
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Nehemiah 3:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And next to him, the priests from the surrounding area made repairs.
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Nehemiah 3:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Above the Horse Gate, each of the priests made repairs in front of his own house.
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Nehemiah 5:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“We will restore it,” they replied, “and will require nothing more from them. We will do as you say.” So I summoned the priests and required of the nobles and officials an oath that they would do what they had promised.
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Nehemiah 7:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The priests: the descendants of Jedaiah (through the house of Jeshua), 973;
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Nehemiah 7:63 · 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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Nehemiah 7:65 · 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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Nehemiah 7:70 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Some of the heads of the families contributed to the project. The governor gave to the treasury 1,000 darics of gold, 50 bowls, and 530 priestly garments.
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Source alternate reference: 7.69
Nehemiah 7:72 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The rest of the people gave a total of 20,000 darics of gold, 2,000 minas of silver, and 67 priestly garments.
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Source alternate reference: 7.71
Nehemiah 7:73 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, and temple servants, along with some of the people and the rest of the Israelites, settled in their own towns. And by the seventh month the Israelites had settled in their towns.
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Source alternate reference: 7.72
Nehemiah 8:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
On the first day of the seventh month, Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly of men and women and all who could listen and understand.
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Nehemiah 8:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them, “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the Law.
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Nehemiah 8:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
On the second day of the month, the heads of all the families, along with the priests and Levites, gathered around Ezra the scribe to study the words of the Law.
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Nehemiah 9:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.
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Nehemiah 9:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Our kings and leaders and priests and fathers did not obey Your law or listen to Your commandments and warnings that You gave them.
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Nehemiah 9:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In view of all this, we make a binding agreement, putting it in writing and sealing it with the names of our leaders, Levites, and priests.”
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Source alternate reference: 10.1
Nehemiah 10:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These were the priests.
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Source alternate reference: 10.9
Nehemiah 10:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“The rest of the people—the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the people of the land to obey the Law of God—along with their wives and all their sons and daughters who are able to understand,
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Source alternate reference: 10.29
Nehemiah 10:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
We have cast lots among the priests, Levites, and people for the donation of wood by our families at the appointed times each year. They are to bring it to the house of our God to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the Law.
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Source alternate reference: 10.35
Nehemiah 10:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And we will bring the firstborn of our sons and our livestock, as it is written in the Law, and will bring the firstborn of our herds and flocks to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God.
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Source alternate reference: 10.37
Nehemiah 10:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Moreover, we will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God the firstfruits of our dough, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees, and of our new wine and oil. A tenth of our produce belongs to the Levites, so that they shall receive tithes in all the towns where we labor.
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Source alternate reference: 10.38
Nehemiah 10:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A priest of Aaron’s line is to accompany the Levites when they collect the tenth, and the Levites are to bring a tenth of these tithes to the storerooms of the treasury in the house of our God.
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Source alternate reference: 10.39
Nehemiah 10:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the Israelites and the Levites are to bring the contributions of grain, new wine, and oil to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are kept and where the ministering priests, the gatekeepers, and the singers stay. Thus we will not neglect the house of our God.”
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Source alternate reference: 10.40
Nehemiah 11:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
These are the heads of the provinces who settled in Jerusalem. (In the villages of Judah, however, each lived on his own property in their towns—the Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants of Solomon’s servants—
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Nehemiah 11:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
From the priests: Jedaiah son of Joiarib; Jachin;
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Nehemiah 11:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The rest of the Israelites, with the priests and Levites, were in all the villages of Judah, each on his own inheritance.
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Nehemiah 12:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now these are the priests and Levites who went up with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and with Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
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Nehemiah 12:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, and Jedaiah. These were the leaders of the priests and their associates in the days of Jeshua.
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Nehemiah 12:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the days of Joiakim, these were the heads of the priestly families: of the family of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
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Nehemiah 12:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua, during the reign of Darius the Persian, the heads of the families of the Levites and priests were recorded.
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Nehemiah 12:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They served in the days of Joiakim son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and Ezra the priest and scribe.
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Nehemiah 12:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
After the priests and Levites had purified themselves, they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.
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Nehemiah 12:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and some of the priests with trumpets, and also Zechariah son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph,
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Nehemiah 12:41 · BSB · 1 occurrence
as well as the priests with their trumpets—Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah—
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Nehemiah 12:44 · BSB · 2 occurrences
And on that same day men were appointed over the rooms that housed the supplies, contributions, firstfruits, and tithes. The portions specified by the Law for the priests and Levites were gathered into these storerooms from the fields of the villages, because Judah rejoiced over the priests and Levites who were serving.
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Nehemiah 13:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now before this, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God
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Nehemiah 13:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and had prepared for Tobiah a large room where they had previously stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the temple articles, and the tithes of grain, new wine, and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, along with the contributions for the priests.
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Nehemiah 13:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I appointed as treasurers over the storerooms Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites, with Hanan son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah, to assist them, because they were considered trustworthy. They were responsible for distributing the supplies to their fellow Levites.
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Nehemiah 13:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Even one of the sons of Jehoiada son of Eliashib the high priest had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I drove him away from me.
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Nehemiah 13:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Thus I purified the priests and Levites from everything foreign, and I assigned specific duties to each of the priests and Levites.
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Job 12:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He leads priests away barefoot and overthrows the established.
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Psalms 78:64 · BSB · 1 occurrence
His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.
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Psalms 99:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Moses and Aaron were among His priests; Samuel was among those who called on His name. They called to the LORD and He answered.
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Psalms 110:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD has sworn and will not change His mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
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