כֹּהֵן

ko.hen

Hebrew H3548 Noun, masculine 750 occurrences in 653 verses
כֹּהֵן priest

1. priest, principal officer or chief ruler

a. priest-king (Melchizedek, Messiah)

b. pagan priests

c. priests of Jehovah

d. Levitical priests

e. Zadokite priests

f. Aaronic priests

g. the high priest

Aramaic equivalent: ka.hen (כָּהֵן "priest" H3549)

Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)

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Concordance 653 verses

  1. 2 Chronicles 29:24 הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים

    And the priests slaughtered the goats and put their blood on the altar for a sin offering, to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had ordered the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel.

  2. 2 Chronicles 29:26 וְהַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים

    The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.

  3. 2 Chronicles 29:34 הַכֹּֽהֲנִים֙הַכֹּֽהֲנִ֔יםמֵֽהַכֹּהֲנִֽים׃

    However, since there were not enough priests to skin all the burnt offerings, their Levite brothers helped them until the work was finished and until the priests had been consecrated. For the Levites had been more diligent in consecrating themselves than the priests had been.

  4. 2 Chronicles 30:3 הַכֹּהֲנִים֙

    since they had been unable to observe it at the regular time, because not enough priests had consecrated themselves and the people had not been gathered in Jerusalem.

  5. 2 Chronicles 30:15 וְהַכֹּהֲנִ֨ים

    And on the fourteenth day of the second month they slaughtered the Passover lamb. The priests and Levites were ashamed, and they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings to the house of the LORD.

  6. 2 Chronicles 30:16 הַכֹּֽהֲנִים֙

    They stood at their prescribed posts, according to the Law of Moses the man of God. The priests sprinkled the blood, which they received from the hand of the Levites.

  7. 2 Chronicles 30:21 וְהַכֹּהֲנִ֛ים

    The Israelites who were present in Jerusalem celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy, and the Levites and priests praised the LORD day after day, accompanied by loud instruments of praise to the LORD.

  8. 2 Chronicles 30:24 כֹהֲנִ֖ים

    For Hezekiah king of Judah contributed a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep for the assembly, and the officials contributed a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep for the assembly, and a great number of priests consecrated themselves.

  9. 2 Chronicles 30:25 וְהַכֹּהֲנִים֙

    Then the whole assembly of Judah rejoiced along with the priests and Levites and the whole assembly that had come from Israel, including the foreigners who had come from Israel and those who lived in Judah.

  10. 2 Chronicles 30:27 הַכֹּהֲנִ֤ים

    Then the priests and the Levites stood to bless the people, and God heard their voice, and their prayer came into His holy dwelling place in heaven.

  11. 2 Chronicles 31:2 הַכֹּהֲנִ֣יםלַכֹּהֲנִים֙

    Hezekiah reestablished the divisions of the priests and Levites—each of them according to their duties as priests or Levites—for the burnt offerings and peace offerings, for ministry, for giving thanks, and for singing praises at the gates of the LORD’s dwelling.

  12. 2 Chronicles 31:4 הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים

    Moreover, he commanded the people living in Jerusalem to make a contribution for the priests and Levites so that they could devote themselves to the Law of the LORD.

  13. 2 Chronicles 31:9 הַכֹּֽהֲנִ֛ים

    Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and Levites about the heaps,

  14. 2 Chronicles 31:10 הַכֹּהֵ֛ן

    and Azariah, the chief priest of the household of Zadok, answered him, “Since the people began to bring their contributions into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat and there is plenty left over, because the LORD has blessed His people; this great abundance is what is left over.”

  15. 2 Chronicles 31:15 הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים

    Under his authority, Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah faithfully distributed portions to their fellow priests in their cities, according to their divisions, old and young alike.

  16. 2 Chronicles 31:17 הַכֹּהֲנִים֙

    and to the priests enrolled according to their families in the genealogy, as well as to the Levites twenty years of age or older, according to their duties and divisions.

  17. 2 Chronicles 31:19 הַכֹּהֲנִ֜יםבַּכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים

    As for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who lived on the farmlands around each of their cities or in any other city, men were designated by name to distribute a portion to every male among the priests and to every Levite listed by the genealogies.

  18. 2 Chronicles 34:5 כֹּֽהֲנִ֔ים

    Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

  19. 2 Chronicles 34:9 הַכֹּהֵ֣ן

    So they went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the money that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites at the doors had collected from the people of Manasseh and Ephraim, from all the remnant of Israel, Judah, and Benjamin, and from the people of Jerusalem.

  20. 2 Chronicles 34:14 הַכֹּהֵ֔ן

    While they were bringing out the money that had been taken into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of the LORD written by Moses.

  21. 2 Chronicles 34:18 הַכֹּהֵ֑ן

    Moreover, Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read it in the presence of the king.

  22. 2 Chronicles 34:30 וְהַכֹּֽהֲנִים֙

    And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the Levites—all the people small and great—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.

  23. 2 Chronicles 35:2 הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים

    He appointed the priests to their duties and encouraged them in the service of the house of the LORD.

  24. 2 Chronicles 35:8 לַכֹּהֲנִ֥יםלַכֹּהֲנִ֞ים

    His officials also contributed willingly to the people and priests and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the administrators of the house of God, gave the priests 2,600 Passover offerings and 300 bulls.

  25. 2 Chronicles 35:10 הַכֹּהֲנִ֧ים

    So the service was prepared; the priests stood in their places and the Levites in their divisions according to the king’s command.

  26. 2 Chronicles 35:11 הַכֹּהֲנִים֙

    And they slaughtered the Passover lambs, while the priests sprinkled the blood handed to them and the Levites skinned the animals.

  27. 2 Chronicles 35:14 וְלַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔יםהַכֹּהֲנִים֙וְלַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים

    Afterward, they made preparations for themselves and for the priests, since the priests, the descendants of Aaron, were offering up burnt offerings and fat until nightfall. So the Levites made preparations for themselves and for the priests, the descendants of Aaron.

  28. 2 Chronicles 35:18 וְהַכֹּהֲנִ֨ים

    No such Passover had been observed in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel ever observed a Passover like the one that Josiah observed with the priests, the Levites, all Judah, the Israelites who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.

  29. 2 Chronicles 36:14 הַכֹּהֲנִ֤ים

    Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.

  30. Ezra 1:5 וְהַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים

    So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—prepared to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.

  31. Ezra 2:36 הַֽכֹּהֲנִ֑ים

    The priests: The descendants of Jedaiah (through the house of Jeshua), 973;

  32. Ezra 2:61 הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים

    And from among the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, and the descendants of Barzillai (who had married a daughter of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name).

  33. Ezra 2:63 כֹּהֵ֖ן

    The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest to consult the Urim and Thummim.

  34. Ezra 2:69 כֹּהֲנִ֖ים

    According to their ability, they gave to the treasury for this work 61,000 darics of gold, 5,000 minas of silver, and 100 priestly garments.

  35. Ezra 2:70 הַכֹּהֲנִ֣ים

    So the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants, along with some of the people, settled in their own towns; and the rest of the Israelites settled in their towns.

  36. Ezra 3:2 הַכֹּהֲנִ֗ים

    Then Jeshua son of Jozadak and his fellow priests, along with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his associates, began to build the altar of the God of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.

  37. Ezra 3:8 הַכֹּהֲנִ֣ים

    In the second month of the second year after they had arrived at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the rest of their associates including the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned to Jerusalem from the captivity, began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years of age or older to supervise the construction of the house of the LORD.

  38. Ezra 3:10 הַכֹּהֲנִ֨ים

    When the builders had laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their positions to praise the LORD, as David king of Israel had prescribed.

  39. Ezra 3:12 מֵהַכֹּהֲנִ֣ים

    But many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads who had seen the first temple wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple. Still, many others shouted joyfully.

  40. Ezra 6:20 הַכֹּהֲנִ֧יםהַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים

    All the priests and Levites had purified themselves and were ceremonially clean. And the Levites slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their priestly brothers, and for themselves.

  41. Ezra 7:5 הַכֹּהֵ֖ן

    the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest—

  42. Ezra 7:7 הַכֹּהֲנִ֨ים

    So in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes, he went up to Jerusalem with some of the Israelites, including priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants.

  43. Ezra 7:11 הַכֹּהֵ֖ן

    This is the text of the letter King Artaxerxes had given to Ezra the priest and scribe, an expert in the commandments and statutes of the LORD to Israel:

  44. Ezra 8:15 וּבַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים

    Now I assembled these exiles at the canal that flows to Ahava, and we camped there three days. And when I searched among the people and priests, I found no Levites there.

  45. Ezra 8:24 הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים

    Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests, together with Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers,

  46. Ezra 8:29 הַכֹּהֲנִ֧ים

    Guard them carefully until you weigh them out in the chambers of the house of the LORD in Jerusalem before the leading priests, Levites, and heads of the Israelite families.”

  47. Ezra 8:30 הַכֹּהֲנִ֣ים

    So the priests and Levites took charge of the silver and gold and sacred articles that had been weighed out to be taken to the house of our God in Jerusalem.

  48. Ezra 8:33 הַכֹּהֵ֔ן

    On the fourth day, in the house of our God, we weighed out the silver and gold and sacred articles into the hand of Meremoth son of Uriah, the priest. Eleazar son of Phinehas was with him, along with the Levites Jozabad son of Jeshua and Noadiah son of Binnui.

  49. Ezra 9:1 וְהַכֹּהֲנִ֣ים

    After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.

  50. Ezra 9:7 כֹהֲנֵ֜ינוּ

    From the days of our fathers to this day, our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities, we and our kings and priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the earth and put to the sword and captivity, to pillage and humiliation, as we are this day.

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