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:
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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 31:15: "and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren"
2 Chronicles 31:17: "Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty"
2 Chronicles 31:19: "Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every"
2 Chronicles 31:19: "to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites."
2 Chronicles 34:5: "And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed"
2 Chronicles 34:9: "to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered that was brought into"
2 Chronicles 34:14: "the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law"
2 Chronicles 34:18: "the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest me a book. And Shaphan read"
2 Chronicles 34:30: "of Judah, of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great"
2 Chronicles 35:2: "And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house"
2 Chronicles 35:8: "gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Jehiel,"
2 Chronicles 35:8: "of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred"
2 Chronicles 35:10: "So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites"
2 Chronicles 35:11: "And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed"
2 Chronicles 35:14: "And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron"
2 Chronicles 35:14: "they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron of burnt offerings"
2 Chronicles 35:14: "night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron."
2 Chronicles 35:18: "such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah"
2 Chronicles 36:14: "Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much"
Ezra 1:5: "of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, them whose spirit"
Ezra 2:36: " The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred"
Ezra 2:61: "And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children"
Ezra 2:63: "of the most holy things, till a priest with Urim and with Thummim."
Ezra 2:69: "thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests' garments."
Ezra 2:70: " So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims,"
Ezra 3:2: "the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel of Shealtiel, and his brethren,"
Ezra 3:8: "of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity"
Ezra 3:10: "the temple of the LORD, they set the priests with trumpets, and the Levites the sons"
Ezra 3:12: "But many of the priests of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that"
Ezra 6:20: "For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure,"
Ezra 6:20: "the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests,"
Ezra 7:5: "the son the chief priest:"
Ezra 7:7: "some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers,"
Ezra 7:11: "Artaxerxes gave the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments"
Ezra 8:15: "days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons"
Ezra 8:24: "Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah,"
Ezra 8:29: "ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and chief of the fathers of Israel,"
Ezra 8:30: "So took the priests and the Levites the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels,"
Ezra 8:33: "of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas;"
Ezra 9:1: "me, saying, The people and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people"
Ezra 9:7: "and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings"
Ezra 10:5: "Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all to swear"
Ezra 10:10: "And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed,"
Ezra 10:16: "did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain of the fathers, after the house"
Ezra 10:18: "And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives:"
Nehemiah 2:16: "yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did"
Nehemiah 3:1: "Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they built"
Nehemiah 3:1: "priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they built the sheep gate;"
Nehemiah 3:20: "of the house of Eliashib the high priest."
Nehemiah 3:22: "And after him repaired the priests, the men of the plain."
