BibleTools

Greek/Hebrew Definitions



Strong's #3548: kohen (pronounced ko-hane')

active participle of 3547; literally, one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman):--chief ruler, X own, priest, prince, principal officer.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ּ

kôhên

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

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: active participle of H3547



Usage:

This word is used 750 times:

2 Chronicles 13:10: "is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister are the sons of Aaron,"
2 Chronicles 13:12: "God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets against"
2 Chronicles 13:14: "and behind: and they cried and the priests sounded with the trumpets."
2 Chronicles 15:3: "the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law."
2 Chronicles 17:8: "and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests."
2 Chronicles 19:8: "set of the Levites, and of the priests, of the fathers of Israel,"
2 Chronicles 19:11: "And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters"
2 Chronicles 22:11: "the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she"
2 Chronicles 23:4: "of you entering of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the doors;"
2 Chronicles 23:6: "into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they that minister they"
2 Chronicles 23:8: "according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man"
2 Chronicles 23:8: "out on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses."
2 Chronicles 23:9: "Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears,"
2 Chronicles 23:14: "Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over"
2 Chronicles 23:14: "of the ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest"
2 Chronicles 23:17: "in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars."
2 Chronicles 23:18: "of the house of the LORD by the hand of the priests whom David had distributed"
2 Chronicles 24:2: "all the days the priest."
2 Chronicles 24:5: "And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities"
2 Chronicles 24:11: "the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied"
2 Chronicles 24:20: "Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people,"
2 Chronicles 24:25: "him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died:"
2 Chronicles 26:17: "after him, and with him fourscore priests that were valiant men:"
2 Chronicles 26:17: "And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests"
2 Chronicles 26:18: "unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated"
2 Chronicles 26:19: "to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before"
2 Chronicles 26:19: "even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside"
2 Chronicles 26:20: "And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon"
2 Chronicles 26:20: "the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon he"
2 Chronicles 29:4: "And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,"
2 Chronicles 29:16: " And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out"
2 Chronicles 29:21: "the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer"
2 Chronicles 29:22: "So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled"
2 Chronicles 29:24: " And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement"
2 Chronicles 29:26: "stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets."
2 Chronicles 29:34: "But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay"
2 Chronicles 29:34: "the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright"
2 Chronicles 29:34: "were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests. than the priests."
2 Chronicles 30:3: "it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither"
2 Chronicles 30:15: "on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites and sanctified themselves,"
2 Chronicles 30:16: "of Moses the man the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand"
2 Chronicles 30:21: "with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day,"
2 Chronicles 30:24: "thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves."
2 Chronicles 30:25: "And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation"
2 Chronicles 30:27: " Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice"
2 Chronicles 31:2: "appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after every man"
2 Chronicles 31:2: "every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister,"
2 Chronicles 31:4: "in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests that they might be encouraged in the law"
2 Chronicles 31:9: "Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps."
2 Chronicles 31:10: "And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said,"









©Copyright 1992-2025 Church of the Great God.   Contact C.G.G. if you have questions or comments.
Close
E-mail This Page
Hide permanently ×

Subscribe to our Newsletter