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 35:3: "And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD,"
2 Chronicles 35:5: "the people, of the families of the Levites."
2 Chronicles 35:8: "willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Jehiel, rulers"
2 Chronicles 35:9: "and Jeiel and Jozabad, of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five"
2 Chronicles 35:9: "of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five"
2 Chronicles 35:10: "stood in their place, and the Levites their courses, according to the king's commandment."
2 Chronicles 35:11: "and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed"
2 Chronicles 35:14: "and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron."
2 Chronicles 35:15: "from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared"
2 Chronicles 35:18: "as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel"
Ezra 1:5: "of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, them whose spirit God"
Ezra 2:40: " The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy"
Ezra 2:70: "So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims,"
Ezra 3:8: "and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity"
Ezra 3:8: "out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old"
Ezra 3:9: "the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites."
Ezra 3:10: "the priests with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise"
Ezra 3:12: "But many 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 7:7: "some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the Nethinims,"
Ezra 8:20: "and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all"
Ezra 8:29: "them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem,"
Ezra 8:30: "So took the priests and the Levites the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels,"
Ezra 8:33: "and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;"
Ezra 9:1: "The people and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people"
Ezra 10:5: "and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all to swear that they should do"
Ezra 10:15: "this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped"
Ezra 10:23: "Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same is Kelita,)"
Nehemiah 3:17: "After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next"
Nehemiah 7:1: "the doors, and the porters and the Levites were appointed,"
Nehemiah 7:43: " The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodevah, seventy"
Nehemiah 7:73: "So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinims,"
Nehemiah 8:7: "Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law:"
Nehemiah 8:9: "and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites the people, said"
Nehemiah 8:11: " So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for"
Nehemiah 8:13: "of all the people, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand"
Nehemiah 9:4: "Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel,"
Nehemiah 9:5: " Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah,"
Nehemiah 9:38: "a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal"
Nehemiah 10:9: " And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad,"
Nehemiah 10:28: "And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims,"
Nehemiah 10:34: "And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering,"
Nehemiah 10:37: "of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all"
Nehemiah 10:37: "of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage."
Nehemiah 10:38: "of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites and the Levites shall bring up"
Nehemiah 10:38: "shall be with the Levites, when the Levites and the Levites shall bring up"
Nehemiah 10:38: "the Levites, when the Levites and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes"
Nehemiah 11:3: "in their cities, to wit, Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants."
Nehemiah 11:15: "Also of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hashub, the son of Azrikam,"
Nehemiah 11:16: "And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, had the oversight of the outward business"
