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Strong's #3547: kahan (pronounced kaw-han')

a primitive root, apparently meaning to mediate in religious services; but used only as denominative from 3548; to officiate as a priest; figuratively, to put on regalia:--deck, be (do the office of a, execute the, minister in the) priest('s office).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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kâhan

1) to act as a priest, minister in a priest' s office

1a) (Piel)

1a1) to minister as a priest, serve as a priest

1a2) to be or become a priest

1a3) to play the priest

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root, apparently meaning to mediate in religious services



Usage:

This word is used 23 times:

Exodus 28:1: "him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu,"
Exodus 28:3: "Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office."
Exodus 28:4: "for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office."
Exodus 28:41: "with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office."
Exodus 29:1: "that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest's office: Take one young"
Exodus 29:44: "I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest's office."
Exodus 30:30: "Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office."
Exodus 31:10: "the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office,"
Exodus 35:19: "the priest, and the garments to minister in the priest's office."
Exodus 39:41: "the priest, and his sons' to minister in the priest's office."
Exodus 40:13: "garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest's office."
Exodus 40:15: "thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting"
Leviticus 7:35: "out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister unto the LORD in the priest's office;"
Leviticus 16:32: "he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's stead,"
Numbers 3:3: "which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office."
Numbers 3:4: "children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father."
Deuteronomy 10:6: "and there and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead."
1 Chronicles 6:10: "Azariah, (he it is that executed the priest's office in the temple that Solomon built"
1 Chronicles 24:2: "children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office."
2 Chronicles 11:14: "Jeroboam had cast them off from executing the priest's office from executing the priest's office unto the LORD:"
Isaiah 61:10: "he hath covered me with the robe as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth"
Ezekiel 44:13: "And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things,"
Hosea 4:6: "thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten"









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