כֹּהֵן
ko.hen
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)
Translated as (BSB)
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Concordance 653 verses
- Ezra 10:5 הַכֹּהֲנִ֨ים
So Ezra got up and made the leading priests, Levites, and all Israel take an oath to do what had been said. And they took the oath.
- Ezra 10:10 הַכֹּהֵן֙
Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful by marrying foreign women, adding to the guilt of Israel.
- Ezra 10:16 הַכֹּהֵ֜ן
So the exiles did as proposed. Ezra the priest selected men who were family heads, each of them identified by name, to represent their families. On the first day of the tenth month they launched the investigation,
- Ezra 10:18 הַכֹּהֲנִ֔ים
Among the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women were found these descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.
- Nehemiah 2:16 וְלַכֹּהֲנִ֜ים
The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, for I had not yet told the Jews or priests or nobles or officials or any other workers.
- Nehemiah 3:1 הַכֹּהֵ֨ןהַכֹּהֲנִ֗ים
At the Sheep Gate, Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests began rebuilding. They dedicated it and installed its doors. After building as far as the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel, they dedicated the wall.
- Nehemiah 3:20 הַכֹּהֵ֖ן
Next to him, Baruch son of Zabbai diligently repaired another section, from the angle to the doorway of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
- Nehemiah 3:22 הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים
And next to him, the priests from the surrounding area made repairs.
- Nehemiah 3:28 הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים
Above the Horse Gate, each of the priests made repairs in front of his own house.
- Nehemiah 5:12 הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים
“We will restore it,” they replied, “and will require nothing more from them. We will do as you say.” So I summoned the priests and required of the nobles and officials an oath that they would do what they had promised.
- Nehemiah 7:39 הַֽכֹּהֲנִ֑ים
The priests: the descendants of Jedaiah (through the house of Jeshua), 973;
- Nehemiah 7:63 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).
- Nehemiah 7:65 הַכֹּהֵ֖ן
The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest to consult the Urim and Thummim.
- Nehemiah 7:70 כֹּֽהֲנִ֔ים
Some of the heads of the families contributed to the project. The governor gave to the treasury 1,000 darics of gold, 50 bowls, and 530 priestly garments.
- Nehemiah 7:72 כֹּֽהֲנִ֖ים
The rest of the people gave a total of 20,000 darics of gold, 2,000 minas of silver, and 67 priestly garments.
- Nehemiah 7:73 הַכֹּהֲנִ֣ים
So the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, and temple servants, along with some of the people and the rest of the Israelites, settled in their own towns. And by the seventh month the Israelites had settled in their towns.
- Nehemiah 8:2 הַ֠כֹּהֵן
On the first day of the seventh month, Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly of men and women and all who could listen and understand.
- Nehemiah 8:9 הַכֹּהֵ֣ן׀
Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them, “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the Law.
- Nehemiah 8:13 הַכֹּֽהֲנִים֙
On the second day of the month, the heads of all the families, along with the priests and Levites, gathered around Ezra the scribe to study the words of the Law.
- Nehemiah 9:32 וּלְכֹהֲנֵ֛ינוּ
So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.
- Nehemiah 9:34 כֹּהֲנֵ֣ינוּ
Our kings and leaders and priests and fathers did not obey Your law or listen to Your commandments and warnings that You gave them.
- Nehemiah 9:38 כֹּהֲנֵֽינוּ׃
In view of all this, we make a binding agreement, putting it in writing and sealing it with the names of our leaders, Levites, and priests.”
- Nehemiah 10:8 הַכֹּהֲנִֽים׃ס
Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These were the priests.
- Nehemiah 10:28 הַכֹּהֲנִ֣ים
“The rest of the people—the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the people of the land to obey the Law of God—along with their wives and all their sons and daughters who are able to understand,
- Nehemiah 10:34 הַכֹּהֲנִ֣ים
We have cast lots among the priests, Levites, and people for the donation of wood by our families at the appointed times each year. They are to bring it to the house of our God to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the Law.
- Nehemiah 10:36 לַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים
And we will bring the firstborn of our sons and our livestock, as it is written in the Law, and will bring the firstborn of our herds and flocks to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God.
- Nehemiah 10:37 לַכֹּהֲנִים֙
Moreover, we will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God the firstfruits of our dough, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees, and of our new wine and oil. A tenth of our produce belongs to the Levites, so that they shall receive tithes in all the towns where we labor.
- Nehemiah 10:38 הַכֹּהֵ֧ן
A priest of Aaron’s line is to accompany the Levites when they collect the tenth, and the Levites are to bring a tenth of these tithes to the storerooms of the treasury in the house of our God.
- Nehemiah 10:39 וְהַכֹּהֲנִים֙
For the Israelites and the Levites are to bring the contributions of grain, new wine, and oil to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are kept and where the ministering priests, the gatekeepers, and the singers stay. Thus we will not neglect the house of our God.”
- Nehemiah 11:3 הַכֹּהֲנִים֙
These are the heads of the provinces who settled in Jerusalem. (In the villages of Judah, however, each lived on his own property in their towns—the Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants of Solomon’s servants—
- Nehemiah 11:10 הַֽכֹּהֲנִ֑ים
From the priests: Jedaiah son of Joiarib; Jachin;
- Nehemiah 11:20 הַכֹּהֲנִ֤ים
The rest of the Israelites, with the priests and Levites, were in all the villages of Judah, each on his own inheritance.
- Nehemiah 12:1 הַכֹּהֲנִ֣ים
Now these are the priests and Levites who went up with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and with Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
- Nehemiah 12:7 הַכֹּהֲנִ֛ים
Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, and Jedaiah. These were the leaders of the priests and their associates in the days of Jeshua.
- Nehemiah 12:12 כֹהֲנִ֖ים
In the days of Joiakim, these were the heads of the priestly families: of the family of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
- Nehemiah 12:22 וְהַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים
In the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua, during the reign of Darius the Persian, the heads of the families of the Levites and priests were recorded.
- Nehemiah 12:26 הַכֹּהֵ֖ן
They served in the days of Joiakim son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and Ezra the priest and scribe.
- Nehemiah 12:30 הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים
After the priests and Levites had purified themselves, they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.
- Nehemiah 12:35 הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים
and some of the priests with trumpets, and also Zechariah son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph,
- Nehemiah 12:41 וְהַכֹּהֲנִ֡ים
as well as the priests with their trumpets—Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah—
- Nehemiah 12:44 לַכֹּהֲנִ֖יםהַכֹּהֲנִ֥ים
And on that same day men were appointed over the rooms that housed the supplies, contributions, firstfruits, and tithes. The portions specified by the Law for the priests and Levites were gathered into these storerooms from the fields of the villages, because Judah rejoiced over the priests and Levites who were serving.
- Nehemiah 13:4 הַכֹּהֵ֔ן
Now before this, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God
- Nehemiah 13:5 הַכֹּהֲנִֽים׃
and had prepared for Tobiah a large room where they had previously stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the temple articles, and the tithes of grain, new wine, and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, along with the contributions for the priests.
- Nehemiah 13:13 הַכֹּהֵ֜ן
I appointed as treasurers over the storerooms Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites, with Hanan son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah, to assist them, because they were considered trustworthy. They were responsible for distributing the supplies to their fellow Levites.
- Nehemiah 13:28 הַכֹּהֵ֣ן
Even one of the sons of Jehoiada son of Eliashib the high priest had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I drove him away from me.
- Nehemiah 13:30 לַכֹּהֲנִ֥ים
Thus I purified the priests and Levites from everything foreign, and I assigned specific duties to each of the priests and Levites.
- Job 12:19 כֹּהֲנִ֣ים
He leads priests away barefoot and overthrows the established.
- Psalms 78:64 כֹּ֭הֲנָיו
His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.
- Psalms 99:6 בְּֽכֹהֲנָ֗יו
Moses and Aaron were among His priests; Samuel was among those who called on His name. They called to the LORD and He answered.
- Psalms 110:4 כֹהֵ֥ן
The LORD has sworn and will not change His mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”