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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:

1 Kings 2:22: "elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah."
1 Kings 2:26: "And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto"
1 Kings 2:27: "Abiathar from being priest unto the LORD;"
1 Kings 2:35: "the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar."
1 Kings 4:2: "he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,"
1 Kings 4:4: "the host: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:"
1 Kings 4:5: "and Zabud the son was principal officer, and the king's friend:"
1 Kings 8:3: "the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up"
1 Kings 8:4: "vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up."
1 Kings 8:6: " And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto"
1 Kings 8:10: "And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled"
1 Kings 8:11: " So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud:"
1 Kings 12:31: "a house of high places, and made priests of the lowest which"
1 Kings 12:32: "he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made."
1 Kings 13:2: "and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's"
1 Kings 13:33: "from his evil way, again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places:"
1 Kings 13:33: "of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became"
2 Kings 10:11: "and all his great men, and his kinsfolk, and his priests, until he left him none remaining."
2 Kings 10:19: "all and all his priests; let none be wanting: for"
2 Kings 11:9: "according to all things that Jehoiada the priest and they took every man"
2 Kings 11:9: "and came to Jehoiada the priest."
2 Kings 11:10: "And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David's"
2 Kings 11:15: "But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers"
2 Kings 11:15: "without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest"
2 Kings 11:18: "and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest"
2 Kings 11:18: "of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house"
2 Kings 12:2: "his days Jehoiada the priest instructed"
2 Kings 12:4: "And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things"
2 Kings 12:5: " Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair"
2 Kings 12:6: "year of king Jehoash the priests repaired the breaches"
2 Kings 12:7: "Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said them, Why"
2 Kings 12:7: "called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said them, Why repair"
2 Kings 12:8: " And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people,"
2 Kings 12:9: "But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole"
2 Kings 12:9: "cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein"
2 Kings 12:10: "that the king's and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told"
2 Kings 12:16: "into the house it was the priests."
2 Kings 16:10: "sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern"
2 Kings 16:11: "And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that"
2 Kings 16:11: "from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king"
2 Kings 16:15: "commanded Urijah the priest, saying, the great altar"
2 Kings 16:16: "Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz"
2 Kings 17:27: "Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence;"
2 Kings 17:28: "Then one of the priests of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came"
2 Kings 17:32: "the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places,"
2 Kings 19:2: "and Shebna and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah"
2 Kings 22:4: "to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum which is brought"
2 Kings 22:8: "And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe,"
2 Kings 22:10: "the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest me a book. And Shaphan read"
2 Kings 22:12: "commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son and Achbor"









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