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
- 1 Samuel 2:35 כֹּהֵ֣ן
Then I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest. He will do whatever is in My heart and mind. And I will build for him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed one for all time.
- 1 Samuel 5:5 כֹהֲנֵ֨י
That is why, to this day, the priests of Dagon and all who enter the temple of Dagon in Ashdod do not step on the threshold.
- 1 Samuel 6:2 לַכֹּהֲנִ֤ים
the Philistines summoned the priests and diviners, saying, “What shall we do with the ark of the LORD? Tell us how to send it back to its place.”
- 1 Samuel 14:3 כֹּהֵ֧ן׀
including Ahijah, who was wearing an ephod. He was the son of Ichabod’s brother Ahitub son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of the LORD in Shiloh. But the troops did not know that Jonathan had left.
- 1 Samuel 14:19 הַכֹּהֵ֔ןהַכֹּהֵ֖ן
While Saul was talking to the priest, the commotion in the Philistine camp continued to increase. So Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand.”
- 1 Samuel 14:36 הַכֹּהֵ֔ן
And Saul said, “Let us go down after the Philistines by night and plunder them until dawn, leaving no man alive!” “Do what seems good to you,” the troops replied. But the priest said, “We must consult God here.”
- 1 Samuel 21:1 הַכֹּהֵ֑ן
Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And when Ahimelech met David, he trembled and asked him, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”
- 1 Samuel 21:2 הַכֹּהֵ֗ן
“The king has given me a mission,” David replied. “He told me no one is to know about the mission or charge. And I have directed my young men to meet me at a certain place.
- 1 Samuel 21:4 הַכֹּהֵ֤ן
“There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”
- 1 Samuel 21:5 הַכֹּהֵ֜ן
David answered, “Women have indeed been kept from us, as is usual when I set out. And the equipment of the young men is holy, as it is even on common missions, and all the more at this time.”
- 1 Samuel 21:6 הַכֹּהֵ֖ן
So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before the LORD and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away.
- 1 Samuel 21:9 הַכֹּהֵ֗ן
The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want, you may take it. For there is no other but this one.” And David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”
- 1 Samuel 22:11 הַכֹּהֵ֗ןהַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים
Then the king sent messengers to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and his father’s whole family, who were priests at Nob. And all of them came to the king.
- 1 Samuel 22:17 כֹּהֲנֵ֣יבְּכֹהֲנֵ֥י
Then the king ordered the guards at his side, “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because they too sided with David. For they knew he was fleeing, but they did not tell me.” But the king’s servants would not lift a hand to strike the priests of the LORD.
- 1 Samuel 22:18 בַּכֹּהֲנִ֑יםבַּכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים
So the king ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. On that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.
- 1 Samuel 22:19 הַכֹּֽהֲנִים֙
He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.
- 1 Samuel 22:21 כֹּהֲנֵ֥י
And Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the LORD.
- 1 Samuel 23:9 הַכֹּהֵ֔ן
When David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod.”
- 1 Samuel 30:7 הַכֹּהֵן֙
Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Bring me the ephod.” So Abiathar brought it to him,
- 2 Samuel 8:17 כֹּהֲנִ֑ים
Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Seraiah was the scribe;
- 2 Samuel 8:18 כֹּהֲנִ֥ים
Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were priestly leaders.
- 2 Samuel 15:27 הַכֹּהֵ֔ן
The king also said to Zadok the priest, “Are you not a seer? Return to the city in peace—you with your son Ahimaaz, and Abiathar with his son Jonathan.
- 2 Samuel 15:35 הַכֹּהֲנִ֑יםהַכֹּהֲנִֽים׃
Will not Zadok and Abiathar the priests be there with you? Report to them everything you hear from the king’s palace.
- 2 Samuel 17:15 הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים
So Hushai told Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, “This is what Ahithophel has advised Absalom and the elders of Israel, and this is what I have advised.
- 2 Samuel 19:11 הַכֹּהֲנִים֮
Then King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests: “Say to the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to restore the king to his palace, since the talk of all Israel has reached the king at his quarters?
- 2 Samuel 20:25 כֹּהֲנִֽים׃
Sheva was the scribe; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
- 2 Samuel 20:26 כֹהֵ֖ן
and Ira the Jairite was David’s priest.
- 1 Kings 1:7 הַכֹּהֵ֑ן
So Adonijah conferred with Joab son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, who supported him.
- 1 Kings 1:8 הַ֠כֹּהֵן
But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and David’s mighty men would not join Adonijah.
- 1 Kings 1:19 הַכֹּהֵ֔ן
And he has sacrificed an abundance of oxen, fattened calves, and sheep, and has invited all the other sons of the king, as well as Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander of the army. But he did not invite your servant Solomon.
- 1 Kings 1:25 הַכֹּהֵ֔ן
For today he has gone down and sacrificed an abundance of oxen, fattened calves, and sheep, and has invited all the sons of the king, the commanders of the army, and Abiathar the priest. And behold, they are eating and drinking before him, saying, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’
- 1 Kings 1:26 הַכֹּהֵ֜ן
But me your servant he did not invite, nor Zadok the priest, nor Benaiah son of Jehoiada, nor your servant Solomon.
- 1 Kings 1:32 הַכֹּהֵן֙
Then King David said, “Call in for me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada.” So they came before the king.
- 1 Kings 1:34 הַכֹּהֵ֜ן
There Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet are to anoint him king over Israel. You are to blow the ram’s horn and declare, ‘Long live King Solomon!’
- 1 Kings 1:38 הַ֠כֹּהֵן
Then Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, along with the Cherethites and Pelethites, went down and set Solomon on King David’s mule, and they escorted him to Gihon.
- 1 Kings 1:39 הַכֹּהֵ֜ן
Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tabernacle and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the ram’s horn, and all the people proclaimed, “Long live King Solomon!”
- 1 Kings 1:42 הַכֹּהֵ֖ן
As he was speaking, suddenly Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest arrived. “Come in,” said Adonijah, “for you are a man of valor. You must be bringing good news.”
- 1 Kings 1:44 הַכֹּהֵ֜ן
And with Solomon, the king has sent Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, along with the Cherethites and Pelethites, and they have set him on the king’s mule.
- 1 Kings 1:45 הַכֹּהֵ֣ן
Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there with rejoicing that rings out in the city. That is the noise you hear.
- 1 Kings 2:22 הַכֹּהֵ֔ן
King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you request Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Since he is my older brother, you might as well request the kingdom for him and for Abiathar the priest and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”
- 1 Kings 2:26 הַכֹּהֵ֜ן
Then the king said to Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth. Even though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death at this time, since you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before my father David, and you suffered through all that my father suffered.”
- 1 Kings 2:27 כֹּהֵ֖ן
So Solomon banished Abiathar from the priesthood of the LORD and thus fulfilled the word that the LORD had spoken at Shiloh against the house of Eli.
- 1 Kings 2:35 הַכֹּהֵן֙
And the king appointed Benaiah son of Jehoiada in Joab’s place over the army, and he appointed Zadok the priest in Abiathar’s place.
- 1 Kings 4:2 הַכֹּהֵֽן׃ס
and these were his chief officials: Azariah son of Zadok was the priest;
- 1 Kings 4:4 כֹּהֲנִֽים׃ס
Benaiah son of Jehoiada was in charge of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
- 1 Kings 4:5 כֹּהֵ֖ן
Azariah son of Nathan was in charge of the governors; Zabud son of Nathan was a priest and adviser to the king;
- 1 Kings 8:3 הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים
When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the priests took up the ark,
- 1 Kings 8:4 הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים
and they brought up the ark of the LORD and the Tent of Meeting with all its sacred furnishings. So the priests and Levites carried them up.
- 1 Kings 8:6 הַ֠כֹּהֲנִים
Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.
- 1 Kings 8:10 הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים
And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, the cloud filled the house of the LORD