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
- Psalms 132:9 כֹּהֲנֶ֥יךָ
May Your priests be clothed with righteousness, and Your saints shout for joy.
- Psalms 132:16 וְֽ֭כֹהֲנֶיהָ
I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her saints will sing out in joy.
- Isaiah 8:2 הַכֹּהֵ֔ן
And I will appoint for Myself trustworthy witnesses—Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah.”
- Isaiah 24:2 כַּכֹּהֵ֔ן
people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.
- Isaiah 28:7 כֹּהֵ֣ן
These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.
- Isaiah 37:2 הַכֹּהֲנִ֔ים
And he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz
- Isaiah 61:6 כֹּהֲנֵ֤י
But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wealth of nations, and you will boast in their riches.
- Isaiah 66:21 לַכֹּהֲנִ֥ים
“And I will select some of them as priests and Levites,” says the LORD.
- Jeremiah 1:1 הַכֹּֽהֲנִים֙
These are the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests in Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.
- Jeremiah 1:18 לְכֹהֲנֶ֖יהָ
Now behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.
- Jeremiah 2:8 הַכֹּהֲנִ֗ים
The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.
- Jeremiah 2:26 וְכֹהֲנֵיהֶ֖ם
As the thief is ashamed when he is caught, so the house of Israel is disgraced. They, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets
- Jeremiah 4:9 הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים
“In that day,” declares the LORD, “the king and officials will lose their courage. The priests will tremble in fear, and the prophets will be astounded.”
- Jeremiah 5:31 וְהַכֹּהֲנִים֙
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
- Jeremiah 6:13 כֹּהֵ֔ן
“For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.
- Jeremiah 8:1 הַכֹּהֲנִ֜ים
“At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves.
- Jeremiah 8:10 כֹּהֵ֔ן
Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.
- Jeremiah 13:13 הַכֹּהֲנִ֣ים
then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am going to fill with drunkenness all who live in this land—the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the people of Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 14:18 כֹּהֵ֛ן
If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”
- Jeremiah 18:18 מִכֹּהֵ֗ן
Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
- Jeremiah 19:1 הַכֹּהֲנִֽים׃
This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests,
- Jeremiah 20:1 הַכֹּהֵ֔ן
When Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer and the chief official in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,
- Jeremiah 21:1 הַכֹּהֵ֖ן
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malchijah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah. They said,
- Jeremiah 23:11 כֹּהֵ֖ן
“For both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 23:33 כֹהֵן֙
“Now when this people or a prophet or priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the LORD?’ you are to say to them, ‘What burden? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.’
- Jeremiah 23:34 וְהַכֹּהֵן֙
As for the prophet or priest or anyone who claims, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ I will punish that man and his household.
- Jeremiah 26:7 הַכֹּהֲנִ֥ים
Now the priests and prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD,
- Jeremiah 26:8 הַכֹּהֲנִ֧ים
and as soon as he had finished telling all the people everything the LORD had commanded him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people seized him, shouting, “You must surely die!
- Jeremiah 26:11 הַכֹּהֲנִ֤ים
Then the priests and prophets said to the officials and all the people, “This man is worthy of death, for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears!”
- Jeremiah 26:16 הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים
Then the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets, “This man is not worthy of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God!”
- Jeremiah 27:16 הַכֹּהֲנִים֩
Then I said to the priests and to all this people, “This is what the LORD says: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Look, very soon now the articles from the house of the LORD will be brought back from Babylon.’ They are prophesying to you a lie.
- Jeremiah 28:1 הַכֹּהֲנִ֛ים
In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, near the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:
- Jeremiah 28:5 הַכֹּֽהֲנִים֙
Then the prophet Jeremiah replied to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the house of the LORD.
- Jeremiah 29:1 הַכֹּהֲנִ֤ים
This is the text of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets, and all the others Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
- Jeremiah 29:25 הַכֹּהֵ֔ןהַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים
this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “In your own name you have sent out letters to all the people of Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests. You said to Zephaniah:
- Jeremiah 29:26 כֹהֵ֗ןהַכֹּהֵ֔ן
‘The LORD has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada, to be the chief officer in the house of the LORD, responsible for any madman who acts like a prophet—you must put him in stocks and neck irons.
- Jeremiah 29:29 הַכֹּהֵ֖ן
(Zephaniah the priest, however, had read this letter to Jeremiah the prophet.)
- Jeremiah 31:14 הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים
I will fill the souls of the priests abundantly, and will fill My people with My goodness,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 32:32 כֹּהֲנֵיהֶ֖ם
because of all the evil the children of Israel and of Judah have done to provoke Me to anger—they, their kings, their officials, their priests and prophets, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 33:18 וְלַכֹּהֲנִים֙
nor will the priests who are Levites ever fail to have a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to present sacrifices.”
- Jeremiah 33:21 הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים
then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant and with My ministers the Levites who are priests, so that David will not have a son to reign on his throne.
- Jeremiah 34:19 וְהַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים
The officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the pieces of the calf,
- Jeremiah 37:3 הַכֹּהֵ֔ן
Yet King Zedekiah sent Jehucal son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, to Jeremiah the prophet with the message, “Please pray to the LORD our God for us!”
- Jeremiah 48:7 כֹּהֲנָ֥יו
Because you trust in your works and treasures, you too will be captured, and Chemosh will go into exile with his priests and officials.
- Jeremiah 49:3 כֹּהֲנָ֥יו
Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.
- Jeremiah 52:24 כֹּהֵ֣ןכֹּהֵ֣ן
The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
- Lamentations 1:4 כֹּהֲנֶ֖יהָ
The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.
- Lamentations 1:19 כֹּהֲנַ֥י
I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.
- Lamentations 2:6 וְכֹהֵֽן׃ס
He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.
- Lamentations 2:20 כֹּהֵ֥ן
Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?