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Strong's #3881: Leviyiy (pronounced lay-vee-ee')

or Leviy {lay-vee'}; patronymically from 3878; a Levite or descendant of Levi:--Leviite.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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lêvı̂yı̂y / lêvı̂y

Levite = see Levi "joined to"

1) the descendants of Levi, the 3rd son of Jacob by Leah

1a) the tribe descended from Levi specially set aside by God for His service

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: patronymically from H3878



Usage:

This word is used 283 times:

2 Chronicles 7:6: "waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of music which"
2 Chronicles 8:14: "of the priests their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister"
2 Chronicles 8:15: "of the king unto the priests and Levites matter, or concerning the treasures."
2 Chronicles 11:13: "And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to"
2 Chronicles 11:14: "For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came"
2 Chronicles 13:9: "the sons and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands?"
2 Chronicles 13:10: "are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business:"
2 Chronicles 17:8: "And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth,"
2 Chronicles 17:8: "and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests."
2 Chronicles 19:8: "did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and of the priests, of the fathers"
2 Chronicles 19:11: "for all the king's matters: also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously,"
2 Chronicles 20:14: "the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came"
2 Chronicles 20:19: " And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites,"
2 Chronicles 23:2: "in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities"
2 Chronicles 23:4: "you entering of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the doors;"
2 Chronicles 23:6: "save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for"
2 Chronicles 23:7: " And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons"
2 Chronicles 23:8: " So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada"
2 Chronicles 23:18: "of the LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in"
2 Chronicles 24:5: "And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities"
2 Chronicles 24:5: "year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not."
2 Chronicles 24:6: "hast thou not of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem"
2 Chronicles 24:11: "the king's by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money,"
2 Chronicles 29:4: "And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,"
2 Chronicles 29:5: "And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house"
2 Chronicles 29:12: " Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son"
2 Chronicles 29:16: "into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook"
2 Chronicles 29:25: "And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries,"
2 Chronicles 29:26: " And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets."
2 Chronicles 29:30: "the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD of David,"
2 Chronicles 29:34: "all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended,"
2 Chronicles 29:34: "the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests."
2 Chronicles 30:15: "on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites and sanctified themselves, and brought in"
2 Chronicles 30:16: "the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites."
2 Chronicles 30:17: "that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites the killing of the passovers for every one"
2 Chronicles 30:21: "days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day"
2 Chronicles 30:22: "spoke comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good"
2 Chronicles 30:25: "the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation out of Israel,"
2 Chronicles 30:27: "Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice"
2 Chronicles 31:2: "the courses of the priests and the Levites after every man according to"
2 Chronicles 31:2: "according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks,"
2 Chronicles 31:4: "to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 31:9: "questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps."
2 Chronicles 31:17: "of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty old"
2 Chronicles 31:19: "the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites."
2 Chronicles 34:9: "the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand"
2 Chronicles 34:12: "of them were Jahath the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah"
2 Chronicles 34:12: "the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of music."
2 Chronicles 34:13: "the work in any manner of service: the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters."
2 Chronicles 34:30: "of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great"









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