Strong's #3878: Leviy (pronounced lay-vee')
from 3867; attached; Levi, a son of Jacob:--Levi. See also 3879, 3881.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
lêvı̂y
Levi = "joined to"
1) the 3rd son of Jacob by Leah and progenitor of tribe of Levites
Part of Speech: noun proper masculine
Relation: from H3867
Usage:
This word is used 66 times:
1 Chronicles 23:14: "were named of the tribe of Levi."
1 Chronicles 23:24: "These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted"
1 Chronicles 24:6: "of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes,"
1 Chronicles 24:20: "And the rest of the sons of Levi were these: Of the sons of Amram; Shubael: of the sons of Shubael;"
2 Chronicles 31:12: "things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next."
Ezra 8:15: "there none of the sons of Levi."
Ezra 8:18: "of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah,"
Nehemiah 10:39: "the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the corn,"
Nehemiah 12:23: "The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in the book of the chronicles,"
Psalms 135:20: "the LORD, O house of Levi: ye that fear the LORD, bless"
Ezekiel 40:46: "are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD"
Ezekiel 48:31: "of Judah, one gate of Levi."
Zechariah 12:13: "The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei"
Malachi 2:4: "you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts."
Malachi 2:8: "ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts."
Malachi 3:3: "and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer"
